Crossword clues for purveyor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purveyor \Pur*vey"or\, n. [OE. porveour, OF. pourveor, F. pourvoyeur. See Purvey, and cf. Proveditor.]
One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household. [Eng.]
a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old French porveor (13c.), agent noun from porveoir (see purvey).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who supply what is needed, especially food. 2 (context historical UK English) An officer who provided provisions for the king's household. 3 (context obsolete English) A procurer; a pimp.
WordNet
n. someone who supplies provisions (especially food)
Usage examples of "purveyor".
Mirris was a tasteless brassy purveyor of blue material and smutty sight gags.
Joey Mirris was a tasteless brassy purveyor of blue material and smutty sight gags.
Can it be that the role of purveyor of its fashionable products is playable also by a chimney sweep, a baker, a fantasizing child?
They were the firewater and cold-deck purveyors, the thimbleriggers and pill pushers, a goodly portion of whose receipts Murrell was now clucking delightedly over.
Cancellarii and Logothetes and purveyors of the Imperial table, whereas in old time the Cancellarius was chosen only from the ranks of Augustales and Exceptores who had served with credit.
Morse Hudson is the purveyor of busts in that part of London, and these three were the only ones which had been in his shop for years.
Every citizen, from highest to lowest, earns his every least nummus coin of profit from those strangers: the traveling merchants and traders and purveyors.
According to what Art had said, he was avid for money and, being the only purveyor of groceries and dry goods in Hellmouth, he was in a good spot to do business.
Next, coming down to the first part of the present century, we find that purveyors of medicinal and savoury herbs then wandered over the whole of England in quest of such useful simples as were in constant demand at most houses for the medicine-chest, the store-closet, or the toilet-table.
It was a neighborhood, like the Swamp and Gallatin Street, given over largely to Kaintuck keelboatmen, cheapjack gamblers, purveyors of nameless cirinkables, and bravos and whores of assorted hues and nationalities.
The admittedly inferior musician is the one who, like Auber and Offenbach, not to mention our purveyors of drawing-room ballads, can produce an unlimited quantity of symmetrical tunes, but cannot weave themes symphonically.
Kallet went on to indict the purveyors of ground meat for their rampant use of preservative chemicals, such as sodium sulfite, citing a study that found sulfite in seventy-one of the seventy-six hamburgers sampled.
A decimilligram of PyrE, still adhering to a former evaporation crystal now in use as an ash tray, kindled a fire that scorched the office of one Baker, dealer in freaks and purveyor of monsters.
He grunted when he was jostled by a hurrying purveyor of marvelously-wrought gauds of glass beads and amber and the teeth of sea-dogs.
Lupus a purveyor had bought and ingrossed up all the day before, and so I was deceived.