英语词汇“achatour”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

achatour

释义

† aˈchatour Obs.
Also acatour, achator, achater.
[a. AngloFr. achatour, earlier acatour (mod.Fr. acheteur):—late L. accaptātōr-em, n. of agent f. accaptāre: see prec. Originally a variant of acatour, acater.]
A purchaser or buyer of provisions; esp. the officer who purchased provisions for the royal household; a purveyor.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 568 A gentil Maunciple was ther of a temple Of which achatours mighten take exemple (other MSS. acatouris).c1475Lib. Nig. Ed. IV in Househ. Ord. (1790) 22 The officers, ministers, achatours, purveyours, sergeaunts.1601Househ. Ord. Ed. II, 33 The flesh and the fish which the achators shal send into the larder.1751Chambers Cycl. s.v., Pourveyor became a term so odious in times past, that, by Stat. 36 Ed. III, the heinous name pourveyor was changed into that of achator, or buyer.

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