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Victuals

Meaning

Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.

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After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it. Miguel de Cervantes

... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink. Frances Burney

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia. Ambrose Bierce

Better belly burst than good victuals spoil. Dutch Proverb