Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who provides viands; a host.
- noun A feeder or eater.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A feeder; an eater; also, one who provides viands, or food; a host.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
feeder ; one who providesviands , orfood ; ahost .
Etymologies
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Examples
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English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best and royalest viander of all Christian Kings," Richard the Second, and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge,
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best and royalest viander of all Christian Kings," Richard the Second, and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge,
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 03: February 1659-1660 Samuel Pepys 1668
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English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best and royalest viander of all Christian Kings," Richard the Second, and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge,
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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"The Forme of Cury," a Roll of Antient English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best and royalest viander of all Christian Kings," Richard the Second, and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge,
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Feb 1659/'60 Pepys, Samuel 1660
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