A person who trades or deals in particular goods
“For much of my life, I have worked as a purveyor of fine fabrics, trading in silk from Damascus and linen from Egypt, and scarves from Morocco that are embroidered with gold.”
A person who supplies or provides something
“Unusually among modernist artists, this supposed purveyor of nihilism was a militant of the left rather than the right.”
A person who spreads gossip
“Yet her succession of popular novels and her culminating betrayal suggest her moral decline into a purveyor of gossip.”
A means by which something can be transmitted or distributed
A person or business which provides stores and supplies to ships, such as food and beverages
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