Definitions
Etymologies
- See provedore. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Estcourt was "providore" of the Beef-Steak Club, and a few months before his death opened the Bumper Tavern in James Street, Covent Garden.”
“providore" of the Beef-Steak Club, and a few months before his death opened the Bumper Tavern in James Street, Covent Garden.”
“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.”
“Estcourt was providore of the Beefsteak Club, and wrote two or three dramatic pieces.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When the providore has received these contributions, he divides them according to the number of persons, and the want they are in: the proportion they observe in this distribution is twenty pots of beer, ten of mead, and one cow to a hundred loaves.”
“The developments include a southern extension of the Clare Valley's famous Riesling Trail, new accommodation for the Murraylands, interpretive signage for a heritage walk around Tanunda and the creation of a weekend providore store and café behind the Naracoorte Art Gallery.”
“The café will use produce from the area and the providore will provide local boutique food producers with a venue to showcase and sell their products to visitors.”
Lists
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
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Logolepsy
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Peter Carey's Illywhacker
Culling my "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list. Thanks for the idea, yarb.
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chained_bear "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 Apr 17, 2009