单词 | vivandier |
释义 | vivandiern. In the French or other continental armies: A person who supplies victuals to troops in the field; a sutler. The feminine vivandière occurs frequently in 19th cent. works relating to Continental wars. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > others concerned with military affairs > [noun] > sutler purveyorc1425 clerk of the victualsc1570 sutler1590 victualler1591 vivandier1591 provanta1625 the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplying to soldiers > one who victuallerc1380 clerk of the victualsc1570 sutler1590 vivandier1591 provanta1625 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 13 Another doth visite Vivandiers and Victualers (if any follow the Campe). 1691 London Gaz. No. 2694/2 They seized several hundreds of Vivandier's Boats. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. 1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (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. 1848 H. Greville Diary 29 June (1883) I. 278 Women went about disguised as vivandières, giving poisoned brandy to the soldiers. 1896 D. Bingham Recoll. Paris I. xiii. 221 Madame de Beaulieu..joined the Mobiles of her native province in the capacity of vivandière. 1963 P. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1591 |
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