viander

From viand +‎ -er.

viander (plural vianders)

1. (obsolete) A feeder; one who provides viands, or food; a host.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     Wherein she fareth like one , that to purchase the name of a sumptuous frankelen or a good viander, would bid diuerse ghests to a costlie and deintie dinner

• “viander”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• invader, ravined, Vandrei, Verdian

From viande +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /vjɑ̃.de/

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viander

1. (reflexive, informal) to come a cropper, to take a tumble, to fall over

   Synonym: se gameler

• “viander”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.