vivandier

From French vivandier.

vivandier (plural vivandiers)

1. A sutler accompanying a continental European army, especially the French army.

Alteration, after vivres, of Old French viandier (from viande (“meat”)).

• IPA^(key): /vi.vɑ̃.dje/

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vivandier m (plural vivandiers, feminine vivandière)

1. (historical) a seller of food and beverages to troops; a sutler

   Synonym: cantinier

• “vivandier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.