vivers
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of vivers
1530–40; < Middle French vivres, plural of vivre food, noun use of vivre to live < Latin vīvere; cf. viand
Example Sentences
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The rock was proveesioned frae the shore with vivers, the thing was ill-guided, and there were whiles when they b�t to fish and shoot solans for their diet.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Through Grant's scattered correspondence there is a flavor of "vivers."
From The Frontiersmen by Murfree, Mary Noailles
"Go to, go to," said the host; "'fore gad, if my face took but a tithe of the good vivers to keep it in colour that thine doth, I were altogether a ruined landlord."
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
I stuck my bayonet through a stout loaf, and, with a dozen comrades armed in the same way, went foraging about for other vivers.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various
Other troubles they had, more sensibly felt than the coarse quality of the vivers.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
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