purvey
verb (used with object)
to provide, furnish, or supply (especially food or provisions) usually as a business or service.
had purveyed
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past perfectof purvey.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Thus trouble came last week to a fancy grocery that had purveyed rich & rare foodstuffs to Manhattan's best tables for 112 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were at the Umbagog chain of lakes, and while it rained the damster had purveyed us a boat and crew.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various
He had purveyed a goat to make pooja, and was returning home with it on life shoulder when he was descried by three knaves.
From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Sir Edwin Arnold
The Baron could not sufficiently express his gratitude and admiration for the promptitude with which his friend had purveyed so promising an adventure.
From Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston
Unfortunately he had not the foresight to enquire particularly which of the articles those two had purveyed.
From The Man from the Clouds by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston
