Obs. [ad. Fr. fontainier, f. fontaine FOUNTAIN.] One in charge of a fountain or fountains.
1641. Evelyn, Diary (1871), 36. The hedge of water, in forme of lattice-worke, which the fontanier caused to ascend out of the earth by degrees, exceedingly pleased and surpris’d me, for thus with a pervious wall, or rather a palisad hedge, of water, was the whole parterre environ’d.
1702. W. J., Bruyn’s Voy. Levant, xxxiv. 135. He lives at present at Loo … in the Quality of chief Fontanier.
