One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings. Fuller.
A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger. I knew by these harbingers who were coming. Landor.
To usher in; to be a harbinger of. "Thus did the star of religious freedom harbinger the day." Bancroft.
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