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

Then he made ready vivers and carriage for the journey and, going in to his daughter by night, bade her prepare to set out on a pleasure-excursion.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

"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 Robert Louis Stevenson

"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

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

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 Robert Louis Stevenson