Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
purveyance .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
purveyance .
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- noun Obsolete form of
purveyance .
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Coquinæ_, who was an esquire by office, seems to have had the care of pourveyance, A.D. 1340 [30], and to have nearly corresponded with our _clerk of the kitchen_, having authority over the cooks [31].
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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