1798 16 Strand, Skill, Provision Merchant and Oil-man.
1852 G. Dodd in 31 July 473/1 The sides of Irish bacon..are consigned to bacon-curers and provision-merchants.
1932 J. M. Barrie 89 Christilly is married on a provision merchant in Ireland.
1995 J. Barclay (2002) i. 7 It was not without cause that the provision merchant had earned his tag.