viands
Example Sentences
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The viands at her table are perfectly served and chosen, though the wines, for which she cares little and which are selected by her butler, are less choice—according to the cigar-smoking gentlemen.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 23, 1929
Ludwig presides, and bewildered Bavarian lackeys must pour out wine and serve viands to a dozen guests who are not there.
From Time Magazine Archive
Throughout the Midwest there are carloads of viands, thousands of dirty dishes swiftly and mechanically cleaned, which testify to the energy and foresight of a single man.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Argosies of viands and wines were lightered in and unloaded while the white-hulled honeymoon yacht creaked at her quay.
From Time Magazine Archive
My mother carried the brown package to a clearing where several men, women and children sat underneath a blazing sun; some rested, tired from digging; others munched hungrily at dug-up sandwiches and other viands.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
