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purveyor
  1. Someone who supplies what is needed, especially food.
  2. (historical, Britain) An officer who provided provisions for the king's household.
  3. (obsolete) A procurer; a pimp.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “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.”
      “Unusually among modernist artists, this supposed purveyor of nihilism was a militant of the left rather than the right.”
      “Yet her succession of popular novels and her culminating betrayal suggest her moral decline into a purveyor of gossip.”
purveyance
  1. The act of purveying.
  2. (Britain) The prerogative of the Crown to requisition goods and services for royal use.
  3. Examples:
    1. “William Cecil thought it would be a good idea to replace purveyance entirely with composition and gradually this began to be the case.”
      “Feudal dues and purveyance were abolished, and an excise voted to Charles in their place.”
      “To obtain information about the purveyance, to the dates available, the prices, etc... it is enough for you to fill the form below.”
purveyour
  1. Obsolete form of purveyor.
purveyances
  1. plural of purveyance
purveyours
  1. plural of purveyour
purveyors
  1. plural of purveyor
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I would encourage the dissemination of divergent points of view, no matter how scorned might be their purveyors.”
      “Publishers, as with other purveyors of ideas, like their categories, their genres.”
      “This is not the easiest musical combination to classify, much to the delight of its purveyors.”
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