In 4 strouter, 6 strowter. [f. STRUT v.1 + -ER1.] One who struts.
1399. Langl., Rich. Redeles, III. 269. To strie strouters þat sterede aȝeine rithis.
a. 1591. H. Smith, Serm. (1594), 227. They which will be strowters, shall not want flatterers.
1682. H. More, Annot. Glanvill’s Lux Orient., 12. What a mere nothing it is that this Strutter has pronounced with such sonorous Rhetorick.
1727. Gay, Fables, I. xl. 5. The Don, a formal, solemn strutter, Despises Monsieur’s airs and flutter.
1804. Eugenia de Acton, Tale without Title, II. 268. Those servile strutters in a great man’s livery.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, I. 54. A brood or two of bantams … with a little ridiculous strutter of a cock at their head.
