Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To guide people to their seats. · To accompany or escort (someone). · To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald. · To lead or guide somewhere.
A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats. · A male escort at a wedding. · A doorkeeper in a courtroom. · An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.
From Middle English ussher, uscher, usscher, from Anglo-Norman usser and Old French ussier, uissier (“porter, doorman”) (compare French huissier), from Vulgar Latin *ustiārius (“doorkeeper”), from Latin ōstiārius, from ōstium (“door”). Akin to ōs (“mouth”). Probably a doublet of ostiary and huissier.
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