viand

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For if all this praise is to be lavished on plain, fresh, immature, roast pig, what adjectives shall we find to do justice to that riper, richer, more subtle and sustaining viand, broiled bacon?

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Van Dyke, Henry

The modern tendency is to confine -nce to action, and to express quality or state by -ncy; cf. compliance, pliancy, annoyance, buoyancy. -and, -end, noun suffix, as viand, legend.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

And so, for four months thereafter, we had to do penance for the joke, on that not very luxurious viand "dry porridge."

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

I was near enough to bring him down; and, should the rifle prove to have been properly loaded, I was likely to have for my breakfast the choicest viand of the mountain region of America.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

And Mrs. Baxter pressed one viand after another upon her guest, before she could turn her attention to the teapot, which was at present enveloped in a huge braided cosy.

From Lover or Friend by Carey, Rosa Nouchette