Definitions
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- noun Someone who
rides at thefront ; a scout, or someone in thevanguard .
Etymologies
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From fore- + rider. Compare German Vorreiter.
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Examples
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In the "Death of Aase" Peer watches his mother's life slowly ebb away and seeks to divert her mind from death by grotesque tales, even throwing himself astride a chair and persuading her through subjective suggestion, that he is the forerider of a beautiful chariot in which she is seated, so that the poor woman, who all her life long has felt the pinch of penury, dies with a vision of wealth and glory before her eyes created for her by the son, worry over whom has hastened her death.
The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players Gustav Kobb�� 1887
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