victualry
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]victualry (uncountable)
- Food.
- 1977, Henry Louis Mencken, The Bathtub Hoax, and Other Blasts & Bravos from the Chicago Tribune, page 270:
- Why this should be so I don't know, for here in this great republic we have the materials for the most superb victualry the world has even seen, and our people have the money to pay for it.
- 2013, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Mermaids!:
- An intelligent and appreciative interest in victualry made, in Wilson's view, all the difference between dining and mere feeding.