† fore-footmann.
Obsolete.
A footman who ran before his master. A rendering of vautrarius fewterer n., misread as vantrarius and supposed to be connected with French avant.
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1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 331 He should be, the Kings fore-foot-man, until he had worne out a paire of shooes.
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