Obs. rare. [erroneously for avourie, AVOWRY; if not for OF. avoeor, avocur, avoueur, of which the proper Eng. form is avower, while the OF. in the first quotation would be avoeresse.] = AVOWRY 2.
c. 1400. Sowdone Bab., 2390. God and seynte Mary myn avoure!
1868. Stanley, Westm. Ab., 158. Round his [Henry VII.’s] tomb stand his nine accustomed Avours or guardian saints, to whom he calls and cries. [Henry VII; Instr. for Tomb in Bell’s Handbk. Westm. Ab., 33. The same to be filled with ymages, specially of our said avouries.]
