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She thinks of herself more as a home provisioner and a teacher of rural-life skills than as a scholar.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021

At a tony provisioner, with expensive salami and capocollo, it’s often the worst meat available.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2012

At the worst she served to exercise the tongue; at the best she was provisioner, geographer, and spy.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various