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ussier (c.1170)

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[ FEW: 7,438 ostium; Gdf: 4,525b huissier 1 /4,525b huissier 2 /4,525b huissier 3; GdfC: 9,773c huissier; TL: 11,27 uissier; DEAF: uis (uissier); DMF: huissier 1 / huissier 2; TLF: huissier; OED: huissier n. / usher n.; MED: usher n.; DMLBS: 2066a ostiarius ]

huissher, huisshier, huisser, huissier; husher, husier, husser, hussher, hussier; oisser, oisseur, ousser; uisser, uissier; uscher, usher, usier; usscher, usser, ussher, usshier; uysser, hyssher 13

In Horn 3638 (var.), ‘Kar pur li oreinz fu un usser enveez’, the editor glosses the word as ‘messenger’. Although appropriate in this context, the word does not really have that sense, and it is therefore not incorporated in this entry. Rather, it indicates that one of the functions of a doorkeeper or porter was to convey messages.

s.1doorkeeper, porter (of a hall, chamber, etc.) in a household; usher, porter (in public office); ostiary, doorkeeper (lowest of the four minor orders in the Church) 2type of military transport ship for horses (with opening stern)

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1occupationdoorkeeper, porter (of a hall, chamber, etc.) in a household:

( c.1170; MS: s.xiii^ex ) A la chambre Rigmel [...] sunt alé; Li ussiers lur ovri 797

( 1380 ) nostre trescher et bien amé vallet Rande de Tynneslowe, ussher de nostre sale i 125.372

( 1408; MS: s.xv¹ ) nostre amé serviteur Johan Attibrig, vadlet, ussher de nostre chaumbre 49.11

♦occupation lawusher, porter (in public office):

( c.1300 ) coment le alderman, seneschal, chapellayn, eskevyns, usser serrount esluys en gilde i 24.2

( 1354 ) paier certains fees a lour clerk, hussers et autres ministres 293

( 1379 ) et a uschers de l'escheker nostre seignur le roy facez paier quarrante souldz i 40

♦eccl.occupationostiary, doorkeeper (lowest of the four minor orders in the Church):

( s.xiii^2/4; MS: s.xivⁱⁿ ) Li primer (=order) [si] est dit 'oisser', Ou 'hostiarie', ou 'porter'. Li secounde est nomé 'litour' 695

( c.1325; MS: c.1325 ) Jhesus [...] butyst hors tuz les mauveyses juyfves que estoyent dedenz (=the temple), dunt yl disoyent: 'E ne es tu pas uysser ne de office, por quoy te fé tu tel mestre?' 45.31

2mil.ship.horsestype of military transport ship for horses (with opening stern):

( 1332; MS: s.xiv^ex ) a solail cochant est ordeinez voz hussers voilés, vos cursadones 355

ussier d'armes

1titleusher of arms, officer whose duty it is to walk before a person of high rank:

( 1366 ) Savoir faisons que nous, confians a plain du sens et de la loyalilté [sic] de nos amez et feauls conseillers [...] Maistre Martin Michiel, abbat de Sangosse la vieille, et Sanche Lopiz Duriz, nostre huissier d'armes [...] iii 802

( 1396; MS: s.xv¹ ) nous avons receu lettres de vous par nostre amé huisshier d'armes J[ehan] Lisac, escuier, par lesquelles desirés savoir nostre estat 329.4

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