单词 | vantward |
释义 | † vantwardn. Obsolete. The vanguard of an army. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > van or front forerunnerseOE vantward1297 formerward13.. forme-ward13.. vamward1338 fronta1375 pointa1382 frontier?a1400 vawarda1400 forayc1425 avantwardc1440 avant-garde1470 vanward1476 vantguard1485 vanguard1487 foreward1490 forefront1513 foremen1577 forefight?1611 vaunta1616 van1633 first line1663 front line1677 firing line1859 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7478 Hor vantwarde was to broke, þat me miȝte wiþinne hom wende. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 9006 Þe vantwardes hom mette verst, as riȝt was to done. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 94 Elde þe hore he was in þe vauntwarde, And bare þe banere bifor deth, by riȝte he it claymed. c1450 Contin. Brut ii. (1908) 320 Sere Bertram Cleykyn, þat was..chyueteyn of þe vauntward of þe bataill. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. viii. xiii He sette..the duc of York in the vauntward. 1557 Malory's Story Noble & Worthy Kynge Arthur (Copland) i. xv Lyonses and Phariaunce had the vaunt warde. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 794 They marched forth in the Vantward; as they returned home, in the Rereward. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1297 |
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