purveyor

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Purveyor of helicopters to his Holiness is Corridino d'Ascanio whose machine needs a flying field only 16 yards in diameter.

From Time Magazine Archive

I believe he afterwards prospered exceedingly in London as a Crimp, or Purveyor of Men for the Sea-Service, and submitted to the East India Company many notable plans for injuring the Commerce of the Hollanders.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

Shall we teach Master Purveyor not to trouble us again?

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John

Thence we were sent to Medical Purveyor Abbot, who assigned us to the best hospital in the city, the Douglas Hospital.

From The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones by Jones, Rufus Matthew

The Medical Purveyor, learning of their success, offered the Aid Society a large contract for army work.

From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Bellows, Henry W.