harbinger

A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.

• harbinger of danger; harbinger of doom; harbinger of spring

One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.obsolete

• outward decency […] is the Harbinger to provide the lodging for inward holinesse

To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of.transitive

• It was harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death; […]