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† vauntparler Obs.
Also vaunt(e)perler, vauntperlor, -parler, vantperlor, -parlar.
[ad. AF. vaunt-parlour, obs. F. avant-parleur ‘fore-speaker’.]
1. ‘One that is too forward to speak’ (Cotgr.).
a1529Skelton Sp. Parrot 427 He tryhumfythe, he trumpythe, he turnythe all vp and downe, With, skyre⁓galyard, prowde palyard, vaunteperler, ye prate! a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 36 Then sodainly was ther in y⊇ counsaill, a vauntparler, a botcher which heryng this, called a great number of his affinitie and went out of the counsayll. 1577Holinshed Chron. I. 408/1 This Prince..followed vpon a wilfull pretence..the councell and aduice of vauntperlors, and suche as (being aduanced from base degree vnto hygh authoritie) studyed more to keepe them-selues in fauoure than [etc.].
2. One who speaks for or on behalf of others; a spokesman.
1534St. Papers, Hen. VIII (1830) I. 424 It shuld be best bestowed..upon Frire Whitford, and upon Lache, whiche bee the vauntperlers, and heddes of thair faction. 1579Fulke Heskins's Parl. 66 He doeth honestly confesse, that..Damascen [was] the first and chiefest of the lower house, he may make him Vantparlar if he will. 1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 120/1 Their vantparler was sir Christopher Barnwell knight, who being somewhat learned, his credit was so much the more, and by them thought most..worthie to haue beene the speaker for that house. |