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▪ I. ‖ routier1
obs. or Hist. variant of ruttier.
1677Phil. Trans. XII. 880 The Author hath, for the Sake of Merchants, annexed the Routier of the East and West-Indies. 1962J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China IV. i. 285 Huang Shêng-Tsêng named as one of his sources a Chen Wei Pien (Collection of Needle Positions), which may or may not have been a specific printed book. If it was, it must have been a ‘routier’ or ‘rutter’ like the Yüeh Yang Chen Lu Chi (Record of Courses Set by the Needle in the Cantonese Seas), which is known to have still existed in the 18th century. 1971S. E. Morison European Discovery Amer.: Northern Voy. xiv. 465 Alfonce attributes the discovery of this river to the Portuguese, and the rhymed routier of 1547 by Jean Mallart agrees.
▪ II. ‖ routier2|rutje|
[Fr., f. route route n.]
1. Hist. A member of any of numerous companies of mercenary soldiers that were active in France during the later Middle Ages.
1845Encycl. Metrop. XI. 620 They [sc. the mercenary adventurers] were named also..Routiers, for numerous reasons too unsatisfactory to deserve quotation. 1910Encycl. Brit. II. 683/1 Arthur now resumed the war against the English, and at the same time took vigorous measures against the plundering bands of soldiers and peasants known as routiers or écorcheurs. 1924K. Norgate Richard the Lion Heart ii. 53 If these Routiers could have been controlled by their employers, Henry and Richard might probably have been easily surrounded and captured. 1951W. B. Wells tr. Perroy's Hundred Years War iv. i. 149 When he entered the king's service,..Duguesclin was no more than a captain of routiers, fond of pillage and raids. 1961P. Green tr. Oldenbourg's Massacre at Montsegur iv. 105 The routiers, or mercenary companies, who formed a large part of the infantry. 1965Auden About House (1966) 17 Conventional Blunderbuss war and its routiers. 1970M. Jones Ducal Brittany vi. 167 The payments made by John IV to the routier companies in 1368–9 were..rather of protection money.
2. In France, a long-distance lorry driver. Also attrib.
In the attrib. examples the reference is usually to the Guide des Relais Routiers, a guide-book originally designed for lorry-drivers in France.
1961L. Durrell in Holiday Feb. 114 We planned to stop somewhere on the road to Béziers and have a bite of supper—Raoul knew a little place patronized by the routiers. 1971Guardian 18 Aug. 10/5 One hotel (Routiers) stop in each direction including dinner and breakfast..[{pstlg}]9.00. 1975Ibid. 27 Jan. 7/5 Setting out with your Green Card and your Routier Guide to storm the Alpine passes. 1976Times 14 Feb. 13/4 A cheap and cheerful routier halt where..the café au lait came in something more like a pot de chambre than a cup. |