viand
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The modern tendency is to confine -nce to action, and to express quality or state by -ncy; cf. compliance, pliancy, annoyance, buoyancy. -and, -end, noun suffix, as viand, legend.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
When she looked upon the viand before her she gave a little cry of dismay.
From A Dixie School Girl by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)
“Huh!” said Una, who was unable to see any adventurous qualities in a viand which she consumed about twice a week.
From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair
And so, for four months thereafter, we had to do penance for the joke, on that not very luxurious viand "dry porridge."
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh
At that time he preferred serving food to being a viand for those who gormandized oddities.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
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