vivers

[ vee-verz ]

/ ˈvi vərz /

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plural noun Chiefly Scot.

victuals; foodstuffs.

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Origin of vivers

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