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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Through Grant's scattered correspondence there is a flavor of "vivers."
From The Frontiersmen by Murfree, Mary Noailles
The man took him home and treated him honourably; then, furnishing him with vivers for the voyage and giving him some gold pieces, embarked him on board the vessel bound for Damietta.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
I have some business in the toun too: But I'll join you at three, if the vivers can tarry so long.'
From Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since by Scott, Walter, Sir
O my brother, I have with me a bag of flour and a flask of water and thou hast the same, and whenever eating-time cometh round each one bringeth out somewhat of his vivers.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The 'fearing a famine' is applied to people gulping down solid vivers without a word, as if the ten lean kine began to-morrow.
From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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