provand

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provand

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From Old French [Term?], from Latin praebenda (“a payment, pittance”).

noun provands

countable, dated, uncountable provender I had always a ready fancy and some of the natural vanity of youth, so I could see myself landing off the lugger at the quay of Inneraora town, three inches more of a man than when I left with a firkin of herring and a few bolls of meal for my winter's provand; thicker too at the chest, and with a j

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@misc{provand_2026,
  title = {provand},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/provand},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}