Obs. In 7 -e(e)r(e, -iere; also FONTANIER. [ad. F. fontainier, fontenier: see -EER.] One who has charge of a fountain.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 220. No gardener nor fountainer in drawing of his trenches and chanels with all his cunning so artificiall.
1644. Evelyn, Diary, 27 Feb. A basilisc of copper, wch managed by the fountainere casts water neere 60 feet high…. The fountainiere represented a showre of raine from the topp, mett by small jetts from below.
1652. Wright, trans. Camus’ Nature’s Paradox, 28. Like those Fountaineers, who shewing curious Water-works and Grotta’s … set themselves in some known place where they remain dry, whilst every one else is wetted to the skin.
