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单词 fontanier
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fontaniern.

Forms: 1600s fontaniere, 1700s fontanier.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French fontainier, fontenier.
Etymology: < French fontainier, fontenier (1292 in Old French) < fontaine fountain n. + -ier -ier suffix.Compare Old Occitan fontanier, Italian fontaniere (1399), both in the same sense.
Obsolete. rare.
A person in charge of a fountain or fountains.
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c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 72 The hedge of Water, which..the Fontaniere caused to ascend out of the earth.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant xxxiv. 135 He lives at present at Loo..in the Quality of chief Fontanier.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020).
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