vivers

American  

[vee-verz] / ˈvi vərz /

plural noun

Chiefly Scot.

1. victuals; foodstuffs.

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Etymology

Origin of vivers

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

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Example Sentences

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vivers

An' there was a waddin'! sic vivers an' drinks, Sic fiddlin' an' pipin', sic dancin' an' jinks; The haggis e'en hotched to the piper it's lane; 'It's a' weel that ends weel,' quo Tipperty's Jean.

From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan

The house, also, without being tavern or shop, was an amateur bazaar of vivers and goods.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various

"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 Henry Curling

But the vivers of her roots they hold the bank together.

From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Arthur Rackham

The rock was proveesioned frae the shore with vivers, the thing was ill-guided, and there were whiles when they but to fish and shoot solans for their diet.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

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