fourrier

Borrowed from French fourrier, from Old French forre. See forage (noun).

fourrier (plural fourriers)

1. (obsolete) A harbinger (someone who provides lodgings).

• “fourrier”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Old French fuerre + -ier.

• IPA^(key): /fu.ʁje/

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fourrier m (plural fourriers)

1. (military, historical) forager

   Synonym: fourrageur

2. harbinger

• fourrage
• fourrière

• “fourrier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.