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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1575
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Vant carrier, n. [e.m.E. vaunt currer (1560), vant corrour (1570), vaunt currier (1579-80), F. avant-coureur.] An emissary. — 1575 Cal. Sc. P. V 183.
[There arrived at Fast Castle one of the Scottish guard out of France … He is come over with great speed in a French ship … He is of kin to Captain Molins, and, he thinks, his] vant carrier. [Thinks he was directed to Lord Seton and that faction upon the news that the Regent was slain]
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