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单词 vivandier
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vivandiern.

/viːvɒnˈdjeɪ/
Etymology: < French vivandier (masculine) (= Spanish vivandero , Portuguese vivandeiro , Italian vivandiere ) a supplier of victuals or provisions, < popular Latin *vivanda for vivenda : see viand n.1 Compare viander n.1
In the French or other continental armies: A person who supplies victuals to troops in the field; a sutler. The feminine vivandière occurs frequently in 19th cent. works relating to Continental wars.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > others concerned with military affairs > [noun] > sutler
purveyorc1425
clerk of the victualsc1570
sutler1590
victualler1591
vivandier1591
provanta1625
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplying to soldiers > one who
victuallerc1380
clerk of the victualsc1570
sutler1590
vivandier1591
provanta1625
1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 13 Another doth visite Vivandiers and Victualers (if any follow the Campe).
1691 London Gaz. No. 2694/2 They seized several hundreds of Vivandier's Boats.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 321 Operations so near to the enemy, as that the vivandiers and other attendants on the troops cannot with safety remain near them.
1848 H. Greville Diary 29 June (1883) I. 278 Women went about disguised as vivandières, giving poisoned brandy to the soldiers.
1896 D. Bingham Recoll. Paris I. xiii. 221 Madame de Beaulieu..joined the Mobiles of her native province in the capacity of vivandière.
1963 P. Fleming Kolchak xiii. 149 They were often companioned by their own or other men's wives or by ladies who played, sometimes usefully, a role roughly corresponding to the vivandière's.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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