feuterer
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Either from German Fütterer (“feeder”) (see füttern), or corrupted from Old French vautrier, vaultrier, from vaultre, viautre (“a kind of hound”), from Latin vertragus, vertraga (“a greyhound”). The last is of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *uɸor- (“over”) + *tregess (“foot”).[1]
Noun
[edit]feuterer (plural feuterers)
- (obsolete) A keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.
- c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signatures D2, verso – D3, recto:
- You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule.
References
[edit]- ^ Baly, J. (1897). Eur-Aryan Roots: With Their English Derivatives and the Corresponding Words in the Cognate Languages Compared and Systematically Arranged. United Kingdom: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited, p. 438
Further reading
[edit]- “feuterer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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