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

Example Sentences

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vivers

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

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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

"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

To the Editers of The Cawcashin: Surs:—We are all on the qui vivers here for war noose.

From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba