Obs. [L., f. ante before + ambulāre to walk; app. in familiar use in 17th c.] One whose business it is to walk in front, an usher.
1609. Man in Moone (1857), 95. [A serving-man] is the anteambulo of a gentlewoman, the consequent of a gentleman.
1641. Maisterton, Serm., 18. An anteambulo to usher in a thousand pains.
1706. Phillips, Anteambulo,… a Sergeant of the Mace to a Prince, a Verger or Gentleman-usher.
