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Definition
a provider of something — such as a commercial business selling something, or a person spreading gossip
- Moreover, he was as illiterate as old Mrs. Mingott, and considered "fellows who wrote" as the mere paid purveyors of rich men's pleasures; and no one rich enough to influence his opinion had ever questioned it.Chapter 12 (19% in)
There are no more uses of "purveyor" in The Age of Innocence.
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