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Viand vs Viander - What's the difference?

viand | viander |

As nouns the difference between viand and viander

is that viand is an item of food while viander is (obsolete) a feeder; one who provides viands, or food; a host.

viand

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An item of food
  • A choice dish
  • *1852 CE: William and Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal
  • *:[H]is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.

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    viander

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A feeder; one who provides viands, or food; a host.
    • (Holinshed)
    (Webster 1913)