Meaning of Livery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
   countable, uncountable
2. The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
   countable, uncountable
3. The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
   countable, uncountable
4. A taxicab or limousine.
   US, countable, uncountable
5. The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
   countable, uncountable
6. The writ by which property is obtained.
   countable, uncountable
7. The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
   countable, historical, uncountable
8. A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
   countable, historical, uncountable
9. An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
   countable, uncountable
10. Release from wardship; deliverance.
    countable, uncountable
11. A low grade of wool.
    countable, uncountable
12. Outward markings, fittings or appearance
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover ( an accurate portrait of your humble servant), professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed: yet, look you, one is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one mounts a cap and bells or a shovel hat; and a deal of disagreeable matter must come out in the course of such an undertaking.”

““I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]””

“By wearing livery, the brewers publicly expressed guild association and solidarity.”

“The 35-year-old must adore this ground as this was his sixth strike in total here: four of these were previously in Manchester City livery, the other in that of Wolfsburg.”

“The airline's new livery received a mixed reaction from the press.”

“The glass fibre body has the advantage of lightness and obviates the need for painting as the material is self-coloured in the standard B.R. maroon livery.”

“The roads were jammed with matatu minibuses sporting cartoonish liveries, and trucks billowing black smoke into the dazzling African light.”

“[…] Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields.”

“The emperor's officers every night went through the town from house to house whereat any English gentleman did repast or lodge, and served their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar.”

“It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative.”

“When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:”

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