¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Purveyors
1. purveyor [n] - See also: purveyor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purveyors
Literary usage of Purveyors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Viceroys of Ireland: With Notices of the Castle of Dublin and by John Thomas Gilbert (1865)
"The Purveyors were likewise licensed to impress horses, steers, ... The payment
made by the Purveyors was at the reduced rate styled the " King's price," ..."
2. A Manual for the Medical Officers of the United States Army by Charles Ravenscroft Greenleaf (1864)
"MEDICAL Purveyors are charged, " under the direction of the ... Medical Purveyors
and Storekeepers shall give bonds in such sums as the Secretary of War may ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"money ; and a singular document of 3 Edward II, relative to a contest between
the king's purveyors and the secular clergy of ..."
4. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1875)
"... insist is that in those instances the purveyors of milk had contracted explicitly
to supply mille of at least ordinary richness. ..."
5. The Ancient Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1876)
"The tone of servants and purveyors.—Pleasure-seeking, universal.—IV. The charm
of this life. — Good-breeding in the l8th Century. ..."
Other Resources:
