Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
provedor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who makes provision; a purveyor.
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- noun One who makes
provision ; apurveyor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Estcourt was "providore" of the Beef-Steak Club, and a few months before his death opened the Bumper Tavern in James Street, Covent Garden.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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"providore" of the Beef-Steak Club, and a few months before his death opened the Bumper Tavern in James Street, Covent Garden.
The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706
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I had now waited full three hours upon deck for the return of my man, whom I had sent to bespeak a good dinner (a thing which had been long unknown to me) on shore, and then to bring a Lisbon chaise with him to the seashore; but it seems the impertinence of the providore was not yet brought to a conclusion.
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To avoid prolixity, though in a part of my narrative which may be more agreeable to my reader than it was to me, the providore, having at last finished his nap, dispatched this absurd matter of form, and gave me leave to come, or rather to be carried, on shore.
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Estcourt was providore of the Beefsteak Club, and wrote two or three dramatic pieces.
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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There is intentional confusion with Estcourt, who as providore of the Beefsteak club wore about his neck a small gridiron of silver and was made a Knight of Saint Lawrence.
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At three o'clock, when I was from emptiness, rather faint than hungry, my man returned, and told me there was a new law lately made that no passenger should set his foot on shore without a special order from the providore, and that he himself would have been sent to prison for disobeying it, had he not been protected as the servant of the captain.
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To avoid prolixity, though in a part of my narrative which may be more agreeable to my reader than it was to me, the providore, having at last finished his nap, dispatched this absurd matter of form, and gave me leave to come, or rather to be carried, on shore.
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I had now waited full three hours upon deck for the return of my man, whom I had sent to bespeak a good dinner (a thing which had been long unknown to me) on shore, and then to bring a Lisbon chaise with him to the seashore; but it seems the impertinence of the providore was not yet brought to a conclusion.
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1 Henry Fielding 1730
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To avoid prolixity, though in a part of my narrative which may be more agreeable to my reader than it was to me, the providore, having at last finished his nap, dispatched this absurd matter of form, and gave me leave to come, or rather to be carried, on shore.
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1 Henry Fielding 1730
chained_bear commented on the word providore
"I could not believe that Goon would still be alive, but when I called at the providore they told me that the old man was asleep."
—Peter Carey, Illywhacker, 367
April 17, 2009