foreshower
English
Noun
foreshower (plural foreshowers)
- (archaic) One who, or that which, foreshows; a prophet or omen.
- 1842 February, Frances Elizabeth Davis, “Memories of Gibraltar, No. IX: The Merchant’s Daughter”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 33, number 130, page 283:
- “Ay, ay, a dream, quotha! dreams are but the foreshowers of the future, my mistress.”
Further reading
- “foreshower”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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