Purveyor

(noun.) someone who supplies provisions (especially food).

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• Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• None of the exuberant versions of things Edison has not done could endure for a moment with the simple narrative of what he has really done as the world's new Purveyor of Pleasure. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I, with an hundred men, went forward first as purveyor, taking the road of the Cote d'Or, through Auxerre, Dijon, Dole, over the Jura to Geneva. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• For some months past, Miss Pross and Mr. Cruncher had discharged the office of purveyors; the former carrying the money; the latter, the basket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Rawdon and his wife generously gave their patronage to all such of Miss Crawley's tradesmen and purveyors as chose to serve them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• True, but as ANY good Portland cement can be used, and no restrictions as to source of supply are enforced, he, or rather his company, will be merely one of many possible purveyors. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She was not, however, without purveyors of information ready to supplement her deficiencies. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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