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‖ arrière|arˈjɛr|
Modern French form of arrear (OF. arere), used in combinations, partly modern French, partly refashionings of Anglo-Fr. or earlier English equivalents in arrere, arrear. arriere-band [cf. also arrière-ban], a rear-division of an army; arriere-fee or -fief [Fr. in 13th c. (Littré)], a fief held from a mesne-lord who is himself a vassal, a sub-fief; arriere-supper (also rear-supper), a late supper; one served up in the bed-room; † arriere-tenant, the tenant of a mesne-lord, a sub-tenant; arriere-vassal [Fr.], the vassal of a vassal, the holder of an arriere-fief.
1882W. Whitman in Academy 18 Nov. 358/3 An inferr'd arrière of such storms, such wrecks. 1824J. H. Wiffen Tasso's Jerus. Del. xi. v, The reverend pair Bring up their arriere bands. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccxi. 474 All his landes, and arere fees in Gascoyne. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., Arriere-fees commenced at the time when counts and dukes rendering their governments hereditary in their families, distributed to their officers certain parts of the royal domains which they found in their provinces. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1841) I. ii. 142 The Châtelains belonged to the order of Vavassors, as they held only arriere fiefs. 1577Holinshed Chron. Scot. 208/1 Diuers delicate dishes, and sundry sorts of drinke for theyr arere supper or collation. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., Arriere-tenant or Vassal. |