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

I lit the candles only to test the food, which I prepared myself, by thrusting a silver knife into the viands.

From Time Magazine Archive

He loves nothing quite so much as supping in state at a Cardinal's Palace with twinkling candles on the table and viands of the best.

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

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