Viand

Quick meaning: Viand is a noun meaning (Philippines) rice topping; any food eaten with rice as a part of a main course meal.

Meaning

(Philippines) rice topping; any food eaten with rice as a part of a main course meal.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) An item of food.
2. (archaic) A choice dish.

Example Sentences

The Motier and Lepelletier tables still groan with viands; roofs ringing with patriotic toasts.

[H]is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.

There was a time, when all the bodies members / Rebell'd againſt the Belly; thus accus'd it: / That onely like a Gulfe it did remaine / I'th midd'ſt a th'body, idle and vnactiue, / Still cubbording the Viand, neuer bearing / Like labour with the reſt, where th'other Inſtruments / Did ſee, and heare, deuiſe, inſtruct, walke, feele, / And mutually participate, did miniſter / Vnto the appetite; […]

Word Forms

• viands

Synonyms for viand

Depending on context, synonyms include delicacy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include provender, commissariat, provisions, victuals, fare, wiener.

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