huisher

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A form of usher — A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.

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Meanings

nounhuisher (plural huishers)

plural huishers

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of usher.

    Was ever such a full-mart for an huisher

    1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
verbhuisher (third-person singular simple present huishers, present participle huishering, simple past and past participle huishered)

present singular third person huishers · participle present huishering · participle past huishered · past huishered

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of usher.

    Hee brought-in likevvise the ancient cuſtome againe, that in vvhat moneth hee had not the Knitches of rods vvith Axes borne before him, a publique Officer called Accensvs ſhould huiſher him before, and the Serjeants or Lictours follovv after behinde.

    1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Caius Iulius Cesar Dictator”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 20, page 8
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MLA

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Chicago

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