vivers

See also: Vivers

English

Etymology

From French vivres, plural of vivre (“to live”).

Noun

vivers pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete, Scotland) provisions; victuals
   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     I'll join you at three, if the vivers can tarry so long.

References

• “vivers”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Catalan

Noun

vivers

1. plural of viver