[f. WELCOME v.1 + -ER1.] One who, or something that, welcomes or greets (a person or thing).
13[?]. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903), 252. In prima porta … inuenient tres ‘welcomeres’ horribiles, videlicet … nakednesse Reminge feblesse.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., IV. i. 90. Farewell, thou wofull welcommer of glory.
1812. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., LXVII. 529. Welcomers of libertinism, but not of impudence.
1829. C. Rose, Four Years S. Africa, 306. Yes,—you [sc. a sea-fowl] are a fitting welcomer to my country.
1850. J. Struthers, Poet. Wks., Life, p. lxix. The welcome was acceptable, though the welcomer was not by any means promising or prepossessing.
1905. Sir A. Lyall, Life Marq. Dufferin, I. vii. 266. They were received by a concourse of welcomers and a profusion of banners.
