The Collaborative International Dictionary
vivers \vi"vers\ (v[=e]"v[~e]rz), n. pl. [F. vivres, pl. of vivre, orig., to live.] Provisions; victuals. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
I 'll join you at three, if the vivers can tarry so
long.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete UK Scotland dialect English) provisions; victuals
Usage examples of "vivers".
There is no church here in Vivers, though I intend to build and endow one.
Edgytha could have been back in Vivers long ago, and by what she had said to the maid Madlyn she had intended to return in ample time to be at her mistress's disposal after supper.
If it had happened so, Roscelin would already have been striding indignantly into the hall at Vivers before ever Edgytha had been missed from her place.
As well if this matter could be kept strictly private to the Vivers household.
True, word had gone round even in the kennels and mews by then, and the entire household of Vivers was gathering uneasily, the indoor servants hovering in an anxious group in the corners of the hall, those from without prowling and peering over their shoulders, unable to withdraw to their own proper business or their normal rest until something should happen within here to scatter them.
All those under the roof of Vivers that night had been drawn gradually and almost stealthily into the hall.
The night had closed in on the manor of Vivers in hushed stillness, ominous and oppressive.
The marriage of Helisende Vivers had brought about all this coil of murder and search and pursuit, and what more was to come of it there was as yet no knowing.
That she must have been on her way back to Vivers, as she had intended.
Yet what connection was there between Elford and Vivers except young Roscelin's banishment to Audemar's service?
The revelation in the hall at Vivers came about full circle, from illusion to reality, from the girl to the woman, as then it had spun headily backward from the woman to the girl.
Helisende must have known of her move, if the rest of the household at Vivers had not.
For the whole household of Vivers is out by now for the second day, scouring the roads for her.
The fatal snow at Vivers would be the last snow of the winter, appropriately completing Haluin's pilgrimage, as the first snow had begun it.
He need not go near Vivers, and that was well, for he had no wish to meet Cenred or his men as yet.