provand

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. provender countable,dated,uncountable
    — I had always a ready fancy and some of the natural vanity of youth, so I could see myself landing off the lugger at the quay of Inneraora town, three inches more of a man than when I left with a firkin of herring and a few bolls of meal for my winter's provand; thicker too at the chest, and with a jacket of London green cloth with brass buttons.

词形变化

provands plural

词源

From Old French [Term?], from Latin praebenda (“a payment, pittance”).
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