van-courier

English

Etymology

From French avant-courrier. See avant, van of an army, and courier, and compare avant-courier, vaunt-courier.

Noun

van-courier (plural van-couriers)

1. One sent in advance; an avant-courier; a precursor.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “van-courier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Raincouver