Modern French form of ARREAR (OF. arere), used in combinations, partly modern French, partly refashionings of Anglo-Fr. or earlier English equivalents in arrere, arrear.
Arriere-band (cf. also ARRIÈRE-BAN], a rear-division of an army; arriere-fee or -fief [Fr. in 13th c. (Littré)], a fief held from a mesne-lord who is himself a vassal, a sub-fief; arriere-supper (also REAR-SUPPER), a late supper; one served up in the bed-room; † arriere-tenant, the tenant of a mesne-lord, a sub-tenant; arriere-vassal [Fr.], the vassal of a vassal, the holder of an arriere-fief.
1882. W. Whitman, in Academy, 18 Nov., 358/3. An inferr’d arrière of such storms, such wrecks.
1824. Wiffen, Tasso’s Jerus. Del., XI. v. The reverend pair Bring up their arriere bands.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. cccxi. 474. All his landes, and arere fees in Gascoyne.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Arriere-fees commenced at the time when counts and dukes rendering their governments hereditary in their families, distributed to their officers certain parts of the royal domains which they found in their provinces.
1818. Hallam, Mid. Ages (1841), I. ii. 142. The Châtelains belonged to the order of Vavassors, as they held only arriere fiers.
1577. Holinshed, Chron. Scot., 208/1. Diuers delicate dishes, and sundry sorts of drinke for theyr arere supper or collation.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Arriere-tenant or Vassal.
