purvey
to provide, furnish, or supply (especially food or provisions) usually as a business or service.
Origin of purvey
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How to use purvey in a sentence
This was the message purveyed in a rash of new romance comics and magazines aimed specifically at young women, with titles such as Young Romance and Young Love.
What the Rise and Fall of the Cinderella Fairy Tale Means for Real Women Today | Carol Dyhouse | April 19, 2021 | TimeSo this feast was ended, and the Constable, by the advice of Anglides, let purvey that Alisander was well horsed and harnessed.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) | Thomas MaloryThey used to send them out in pairs, sometimes to one district, and sometimes to another, to purvey food for them.
My Dark Companions | Henry M. StanleyThe wretches who gained the name of Resurrection men despoiled graveyards to purvey subjects for the dissecting knife.
The Chronicles of Newgate, v. 2/2 | Arthur Griffithspurvey himself contributes to this end by a definite statement of certain changes which may be allowed the English writer.
Early Theories of Translation | Flora Ross Amos
purvey says, "Men might expound much openlier and shortlier the Bible than the old doctors have expounded it in Latin."
Early Theories of Translation | Flora Ross Amos
British Dictionary definitions for purvey
to sell or provide (commodities, esp foodstuffs) on a large scale
to publish or make available (lies, scandal, etc)
Scot the food and drink laid on at a wedding reception, etc
Origin of purvey
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