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‖ vivandier|vivɑ̃dje|
[F. vivandier masc. (= Sp. vivandero, Pg. vivandeiro, It. vivandiere) a supplier of victuals or provisions, f. pop.L. *vivanda for vivenda: see viand1. Cf. viander1.]
In the French or other continental armies: A person who supplies victuals to troops in the field; a sutler.
The feminine vivandière occurs freq. in 19th cent. works relating to Continental wars.
1591Garrard's Art Warre 13 Another doth visite Vivandiers and Victualers (if any follow the Campe). 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2694/2 They seized several hundreds of Vivandier's Boats. 1802James Milit. Dict. 1813Wellington in Gurwood Desp. (1838) X. 321 Operations so near to the enemy, as that the vivandiers and other attendants on the troops cannot with safety remain near them. 1848H. Greville Diary 29 June (1883) I. 278 Women went about disguised as vivandières, giving poisoned brandy to the soldiers. 1896D. Bingham Recoll. Paris I. xiii. 221 Madame de Beaulieu..joined the Mobiles of her native province in the capacity of vivandière. 1963P. Fleming Kolchak xiii. 149 They were often companioned by their own or other men's wives or by ladies who played, sometimes usefully, a role roughly corresponding to the vivandière's. |