Synonyms for viands


Grammar : Noun
Spell : vahy-uh nd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvaɪ ənd


Définition of viands

Origin :
  • "article of food," early 14c., from Anglo-French viaunde, Old French viande "food," dissimilated from Vulgar Latin *vivanda, from Late Latin vivenda "things for living," in classical Latin, "be live," neuter plural gerundive of vivere "to live" (see vital).
  • noun food
Example sentences :
  • It might here refer more particularly to the room which contained the viands.
  • Extract from : « Y Gododin » by Aneurin
  • None of the viands looked familiar but all appealed to the appetite.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
  • There were long tables loaded with viands and decorated with flowers.
  • Extract from : « Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman » by J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd
  • All The viands in their gravy's wine Grow lurid and fantastical.
  • Extract from : « Enamels and Cameos and other Poems » by Thophile Gautier
  • The viands were excellent, and the wines of the first quality.
  • Extract from : « Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. » by Pierce Egan
  • With the point of nurse's scissors we prised the viands from the platters.
  • Extract from : « The Magic City » by Edith Nesbit
  • But notwithstanding this, the viands at the meal were both dainty and varied.
  • Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne
  • These viands, with the food they took with them, furnished breakfasts and suppers which they deemed even sumptuous.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott
  • The viands were eaten freely, though the occasion was not a happy one.
  • Extract from : « Cousin Henry » by Anthony Trollope
  • The viands were quite in keeping with the simplicity of the table-gear.
  • Extract from : « The Doomsman » by Van Tassel Sutphen

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