English

Alternative forms

• avaunter

Noun

avauntour ‎(plural avauntours)

1. (obsolete) One who boasts (avaunts).
   • 1482 (earliest extant version), Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book III-314

     Y-wis, I am avauntour at the leste, / And lyere, for I breke my biheste.

References

• avauntour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914