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 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

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

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

From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rackham, Arthur

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