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purveyor

/pəɹˈveɪəɹ/ sustantivo C2
  1. One who purveys (“furnishes, provides; gets, procures”); a supplier; specifically, one in the business of supplying food or other necessary material goods; a provisioner. · The merchants are the purveyors of fine selections.
  2. A person or group that promotes or spreads an idea, a viewpoint, etc. (figuratively) · purveyors of false information

Plural purveyors

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“On the other hand, this Morse Hudson is the purveyor of busts in that part of London, and these three were the only ones which had been in his shop for years.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 71 · C1
Silence, purveyor of gossip, do not spread that report.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 852 · C1
“‘I, El-Kobbir, a slave-merchant, and purveyor of the harem of his highness, acknowledge having received for transmission to the sublime emperor, from the French lord, the Count of Monte Cristo, an emerald valued at eight hundred thousand francs; as the ransom of a young Christian slave of eleven years of age, named Haydée, the acknowledged daughter of the late lord Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina, and of Vasiliki, his favorite; she having been sold to me seven years previously, with her mother, who had died on arriving at Constantinople, by a French colonel in the service of the Vizier Ali Tepelini, named Fernand Mondego.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 876 · C1

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