单词 | knight harbinger |
释义 | > as lemmasKnight Harbinger 2. One sent on before to purvey lodgings for an army, a royal train, etc.; a purveyor of lodgings; in plural, an advance company of an army sent to prepare a camping-ground; a pioneer who prepares the way. Historical and archaic. †Knight Harbinger: an officer in the Royal Household (the office was abolished in 1846). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > one who secures accommodation or lodging harbingerc1386 furrier1525 furriel1598 α. β. 1460 C. Hansson in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 216 The h [ar] byger [Letters lost at hole in paper] of my lord of Marche.1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xxviii Thenne ther cam the herbegeours from kynge Arthur for to herborowe hym and his kynges.c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Nij v Men must wyn the marshall, or ellys herbegere With pryce or with prayer.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxxvjv The English cariers that came with the harbeshers to take ground..toke certayne wagons with beere and vitayle.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Harbiger, to appoint lodginges for the traine of princes, epistathmi.?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter cv. 300 To them as herbeger, Lo Joseph sold to servitude.γ. 1471 Arriv. Edw. IV (Camden) 27 Theyr herbengars were come afore them as ferre as Sudberrye.1524 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 115 He shalle not sett his men too coyne uppon the Kinges subjectes..but by bille made by the arbinger.1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxxviii. [cxxiv.] 364 They had sent before their herbyngers to take vp their lodgynges.1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ii. xii. 185 Where the Herbinger had before marked the lodgings for Otho.1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iv. 205 The chiefe Magistrate..as an Harbinger appoynted out their billet.1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. ii. xii. 105 They have a gentleman harbinger to provide lodging for them.1743 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 35) ii. 190 William Cowper, Esq.; Knight-Harbinger.1875 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxxiii, in Monthly Packet Mar. 223 Harbingers were sent before, to prepare quarters for all this train.c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 899 The fame anon thurgh out the toun is born..By herbergeours [v.r. -jours], that wenten hym biforn. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 2448 Thane come þe herbariours, harageous knyghtez. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 228/2 Harberger, fourrier du roy. ?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 45 His harbergers passyng byfore to provyde lodgynges for his trayn. < as lemmas |
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