Hypertext Webster Gateway: "aventure"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aventure \A*ven"ture\ (?; 135), n. [See {Adventure}, n.]
1. Accident; chance; adventure. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
2. (Old Law) A mischance causing a person's death without
felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.
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