Crossword-Solution: COMPERE 7 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

With him there rode a gentle PARDONERE Of Ronceval, his friend and his compere, That straight was comen from the court of Rome.

You had better pay your rent for three months in advance, and tell your landlord the same thing; saying that you may go suddenly anytime, as a compere who is in Paris, and is also going back, is going to take charge of you on the journey, and that he may call for you at any time.

Seated on a green-and-white striped chair he watched a _revue_, of which from start to finish he understood but one word--'out', to wit--absorbed in the doings of a red-moustached gentleman in blue who wrangled in rapid French with a black-moustached gentleman in yellow, while a snow-white _commere_ and a _compere_ in a mauve flannel suit looked on at the brawl.

Compere Martin, as he was commonly called, was the factotum of the place-sportsman, schoolmaster, and land surveyor.

What had sent Compere Martin traveling with the grand seigneur I could not learn; he evidently looked up to him with great deference, and was assiduous in rendering him petty attentions; from which I concluded that he lived at home upon the crumbs which fell from his table.