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COURIER (from the O. Fr. courier, modern courrier, from Lat. currere, to run)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 320 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
COURIER (from the O. Fr. courier, modern courrier, from Lat. currere, to run) , properly a running messenger, who carried despatches and letters; a
system
  of couriers, mounted or on foot, formed the beginnings of the
modern
 
post
 -
office
  (see
POST
 , and POSTAL SERVICE). The despatches which pass between the foreign
office
  and its representatives abroad, and which cannot be entrusted to the postal service or the telegraph, are carried by
special
  couriers, styled, in the British service, King's Messengers. " Courier," more particularly, is applied to a travelling attendant, whose duties are to arrange for the carrying of the luggage, obtaining of passports, settling of hotel
accommodation
 , and generally to look . to the comfort and facility of travel. The name " courier " and the similar word "courant " (Ital. coranto) have often been used as the
title
  of a newspaper or periodical (see
NEWSPAPERS
 ); the Courier, founded in x792, was for some time
the leading London
journal
 .


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