单词 | fourrier |
释义 | fourriern. Obsolete exc. Historical or as an alien word. 1. = forayer n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > [noun] > one who goes first > as a harbinger or messenger messengerc1230 foregoer1393 fourrier1481 fore-rider1513 fore-currour1548 usher1548 harbingera1550 vaunt-courier1561 van-courier1581 herald1597 usherer1598 outrunner1891 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) lxxxiii. 131 They made semblaunt for to take fourriers and the horses nyghe them. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 30 The Arch-duke had caused a Fourrier or Harbinger..to be put in prison. 1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III i. 34 This was the preparative and fourrier of the rest. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. v. 135 He that decoyed us into this snare shall go our fourrier to the next world, to take up lodgings for us. 2. A quartermaster. Also brigadier-fourrier (see quot. 1895). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > quartermaster quartermaster1590 fourrier1678 Q.M.1791 quartermaster captain1846 Q1916 quarter1917 quarter-bloke1918 quarter jack1930 1678 tr. L. de Gaya Art of War ii. 47 The Fourier ought to have a List of all the Soldiers of a Company. 1781 in T. Simes Mil. Guide (ed. 3) 7 He makes the Fourier mark the head~quarters, and the quarters of the General Officers. 1895 Daily News 22 Oct. 6/4 He had worked his way up to the enviable position of brigadier-fourrier, a sub-officer charged with accounts, lodging of men, etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1481 |
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