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Purveyor   /pərvˈeɪər/   Listen
noun
Purveyor  n.  
1.
One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
2.
An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household. (Eng.)
3.
A procurer; a pimp; a bawd.





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"Purveyor" Quotes from Famous Books



... fancy that she has as many lovers as her mother. And at other times I imagine that she suspects absolutely nothing of that sort of life, you understand. Furthermore, she is a great novel reader. I am at present, while awaiting something better, her book purveyor. She calls me her 'librarian.' Every week the New Book Store sends her, on my orders, everything new that has appeared, and I believe that she reads everything at random. It must make a strange sort of ...
— Yvette • Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant
... Buscot had stated, the utmost confusion prevailed below. The royal purveyor and cook, who formed part of the king's suite, were busily employed in the kitchen, and though they had the whole household at their command, they made rather slow progress at first, owing to the want of materials. In a short time, however, this difficulty ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... near Hampton Court, being much decayed, some trees were wanted for the repairs that were fifty feet long without bough, and would measure twelve inches diameter at the little end. Twenty such trees did a purveyor find in this little wood, with this advantage, that many of them answered the description at sixty feet. These trees were sold ...
— The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 • Gilbert White
... the selection of the relation and experiments I conceive I have been a more cautious purveyor than those who have hitherto dealt with natural history. For I admit nothing but on the faith of eyes, or at least of careful and severe examination; so that nothing is exaggerated for wonder's sake, but what I state is sound and without mixture of fables or vanity. All received or current falsehoods ...
— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot
... every-other-corner drug-store of a million dollar corporation. Housewives with perambulators and oilcloth shopping bags. Children on roller-skates. The din of small tradesmen and the humdrum of every city block where the homes remain unboarded all summer, and every wife is on haggling terms with the purveyor of her evening roundsteak and ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various


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