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What does purvey mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
  2. (transitive) To furnish or provide.
  3. (transitive) To procure; to get.
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White painted wood and soft linens in stars and stripes purvey a New England beach house feel.
Credit cards are convenient, but few individuals have setups where they can handle the plastic, that being the purvey of businesses who deal in volume.
All are meant to purvey the same message of ubiquitousness, a sinister blend of reassurance and menace.
In this effort, advertising companies have notoriously used women as objects to purvey their products.
Could it have been those allegiances that in some way led her to purvey such calumnies?
In authoritarian systems the local media is usually the first to be subverted and used by the government to purvey its message.

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