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Date: 1100-1200
Language: Old French
Origin: herbergere 'host', from herberge 'place you stay at'

harbinger

 noun
     
har‧bin‧ger [countable] literary or formal
a sign that something is going to happen soon
harbinger of
These birds are considered to be harbingers of doom.
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