avauntour

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === avaunter === Etymology === Borrowed from Old French avanteur or avantour; equivalent to avaunten +‎ -our. === Noun === avauntour (plural avauntours) one who avaunts or boasts === References === “avauntour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avauntour”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.