Purveyor
[pə'veɪə(r);pɜː'veɪə(r)]
Definition
(n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
(n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.
(n.) a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Provider, caterer.
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Examples
- Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- None of the exuberant versions of things Edison has not done could endure for a moment with the simple narrative of what he has really done as the world's new Purveyor of Pleasure. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I, with an hundred men, went forward first as purveyor, taking the road of the Cote d'Or, through Auxerre, Dijon, Dole, over the Jura to Geneva. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- For some months past, Miss Pross and Mr. Cruncher had discharged the office of purveyors; the former carrying the money; the latter, the basket. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Rawdon and his wife generously gave their patronage to all such of Miss Crawley's tradesmen and purveyors as chose to serve them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- True, but as ANY good Portland cement can be used, and no restrictions as to source of supply are enforced, he, or rather his company, will be merely one of many possible purveyors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She was not, however, without purveyors of information ready to supplement her deficiencies. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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