[F. vivres: see VIVERS.] Victuals, provisions.
a. 1650. in Grose, Milit. Antiq. (1788), II. 222. There are yet … two quarters more; the one of noblemen strangers, and the other the magazines of the vivres. Ibid. The general of the vivres.
1800. A. Carlyle, Autobiog. (1860), 160. The marketplace [of Yarmouth] … is very spacious, and remarkably well provided with every kind of vivres for the pot and the spit.
1819. Blackw. Mag., VI. 279. So much for demand and supply of vivres, and good substantial vivres too.
1852. Jerdan, Autobiog., II. 142. He got into some debt for the vivres and tipple.
