vivers

[ vee-verz ]

plural noun

, Chiefly Scot.

1. victuals; foodstuffs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of vivers¹

1530–40; < Middle French vivres, plural of vivre food, noun use of vivre to live < Latin vīvere; viand

Example Sentences

Then I put it in my coat tail pocket, but I was kept all the time on the qui vivers, afeerd sum pickpocket would steal it.

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Don Francisco de Vivers, the elder of the two, was an inhabitant of Seville, of considerable wealth and excellent family.

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Among others, her former admirer, Don Francisco de Vivers, was induced to visit her.

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Love is like folk,” says she; “it needs some kind of vivers.

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Give me meal and water in the heel of my shoe and I would count it very good vivers for a fortnight.

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