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

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

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

"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

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