Obs. Forms: 5 avauntour, 6 -ure, advaunter. [a. OF. avanteur, -our, n. of agent f. avanter: see AVAUNT v.1] A boaster.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, III. 260. Avauntour and a lier, all is one.
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de W.), VIII. v. 327. The auaunter of hymselfe is worse than the lacker of hymselfe.
c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814), 440. For I neuer saw so good a knight and so lytel auaunture.
1553. Brende, Q. Curtius, VIII. 5. Being over great an advaunter of hymselfe.
