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They also stir the hearts of many chefs and can cost a small fortune to purvey.
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Kings Row opens, and they know how to purvey that lovely pre-psychedelic pop as well.
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Americans are going bar crazy, and not for the sort that purvey wine, beer, or salads.
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Krugman's little lie undermines the big lie he and his newspaper are attempting to purvey.
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Purvey explains that one cannot translate a text without having a grasp of what is being read.
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One Kings Lane launched them in April 2010, collaborating with designers to purvey their belongings.
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In key roles, Donald Sinden and Rachel Roberts convey randy frustration and purvey music hall bawdry.
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There are items that they carry or purvey to the public that are difficult to impossible to find elsewhere.
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Increasingly, the groups who purvey it have focused on the delivery of services, not the building of institutions.
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- Provision: supply with provisions
- (purveyance) the act of supplying something
- Purveyance is the right of the Crown to requisition goods and services for royal use, and was developed in England over the course of the late eleventh through the fourteenth centuries. ...
- (Purveying) Beginning as early as the 14th century, a grocer (also called purveyor) was a dealer in comestible dry goods such as spices, pepper, sugar, and (later) cocoa, tea and coffee. These items were bought in bulk, hence the term grocer from the French "grossier" meaning wholesaler.
- To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision; To furnish or provide
