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

"Love is like folk," says she, "it needs some kind of vivers."

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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