purveyor

[per-vey-er]

noun

1. a person who purveys, provides, or supplies.

   a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.

2. Old English Law.,  an officer who provided or acquired provisions for the sovereign under the prerogative of purveyance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of purveyor¹

1250–1300; Middle English pourveour < Anglo-French; purvey, -or ²

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