livery
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English livery, liveree, from Anglo-Norman liveree, from Old French livree. Compare modern French livrée.
Base: liver
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: liveries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: liveray
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: liverie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more livery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most livery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
Going into the hall he saw a handsome groom, in a braided livery and a bear fur cape, holding a white fur cloak.
“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.
gloss: The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A taxicab or limousine.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The writ by which property is obtained.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: […] Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields.
gloss: A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Release from wardship; deliverance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative.
gloss: A low grade of wool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Outward markings, fittings or appearance
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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:
gloss: Like liver.
pos: adj
examples: We are happy for the chopped mushrooms within the warm goose liver paté, for the coarse, highly seasoned wedge has a robust livery flavour the 'shrooms manage to ease.
A second test was similar, but we brought the internal temperature up to 130 degrees; the texture was chewy, the meat tasted livery, and had not melted.
Sulfur-containing compounds (thiols, sulfides, thiazoles, sulfur-substituted furans) can interact with carbonyl compounds to produce a livery flavor.
gloss: Queasy, liverish.
pos: adj
examples: He woke feeling livery, and aware that he had overslept the morning.
The biliousness and livery feeling will disappear and the feeling of joy and happiness will be the reward.
He felt fresh and buoyant. When he was young, and had taken a siesta, he had felt livery for a couple of hours afterwards, with a tongue like a chicken run
To like everyone and to be happy with anyone was a virtue and its own reward, but I realized now that for weeks I had been feeling livery, impatient, restless.
Derived words: coign and livery
devil's livery
livery stable
liverywoman
livery yard
relivery
servant out of livery
sue one's livery
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