Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who provides viands; a host.
  • noun A feeder or eater.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A feeder; an eater; also, one who provides viands, or food; a host.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A feeder; one who provides viands, or food; a host.

Etymologies

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viand +‎ -er

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Examples

  • English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best and royalest viander of all Christian Kings," Richard the Second, and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge,

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best and royalest viander of all Christian Kings," Richard the Second, and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge,

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 03: February 1659-1660 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best and royalest viander of all Christian Kings," Richard the Second, and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge,

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • "The Forme of Cury," a Roll of Antient English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best and royalest viander of all Christian Kings," Richard the Second, and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge,

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Feb 1659/'60 Pepys, Samuel 1660

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