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  • noun Plural form of vivandiere.

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Examples

  • I found there flower-merchants disguised as vivandieres.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • 'Orientales'; 'Odes' and 'Ballads', by the dozen; 'Comes d'Espagne et d'Italie', with their pages, turrets, chatelaines; bull-fighters, Spanish ladies; vivandieres, beguiled away from their homes under the pale of the church, "near a stream of running water, by a gay and handsome chevalier," and many other such silly things -- Amedee will remember them always!

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • It was even, going into base details, argued that the Marechal's expression could not apply to the vivandieres and the other camp women, as they always rode astride, one leg on this side one leg on the other, like men, a manner very different from that of the ladies of Madame de Bourgogne.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • We opened as soldiers and vivandieres, every warrior in this way possessing his own private travelling bar.

    Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893

  • Spanish ladies; vivandieres, beguiled away from their homes under the pale of the church, "near a stream of running water, by a gay and handsome chevalier," and many other such silly things -- Amedee will remember them always!

    A Romance of Youth — Complete Fran��ois Copp��e 1875

  • I found there flower-merchants disguised as vivandieres.

    The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete Alfred de Musset 1833

  • It was even, going into base details, argued that the Marechal's expression could not apply to the vivandieres and the other camp women, as they always rode astride, one leg on this side one leg on the other, like men, a manner very different from that of the ladies of Madame de Bourgogne.

    Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715

  • It was even, going into base details, argued that the Marechal's expression could not apply to the vivandieres and the other camp women, as they always rode astride, one leg on this side one leg on the other, like men, a manner very different from that of the ladies of Madame de Bourgogne.

    Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 07 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715

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