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pursuivant
PUR-swi-vuhnt
noun
an attendant; a follower or lackey
1593William ShakespeareRichard III[Enter a Pursuivant.] | HASTINGS. Go on before; I'll talk with this good fellow. | [Exeunt STANLEY and CATESBY.] How now, sirrah! how goes the world with thee? | PURSUIVANT. The better that your lordship please to ask.1876James Russell LowellAmong My BooksThe fleeting skies like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant!1903Thomas Bailey AldrichPonkapog PapersIt has recently become the fashion to speak disparagingly of Leigh Hunt as a poet, to class him as a sort of pursuivant or shield-bearer to Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats.

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