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Livery   /lˈɪvəri/   Listen
Livery

noun
(pl. liveries)
1.
Uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs.
2.
The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another.  Synonyms: delivery, legal transfer.
3.
The care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay.
adjective
1.
Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress.  Synonyms: bilious, liverish.



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"Livery" Quotes from Famous Books



... man who called himself Jack had left the German restaurant, he went to a livery-stable near by, called for his own horse, which was kept there, and the instant it was saddled he mounted, and at a gallop rode westward ...
— Wild Bill's Last Trail • Ned Buntline
... Those days were now over; and there was little hope that they would ever return. She was not able to withstand the temptation of ten pounds that Talon the bailiff offered her, but brought him into my apartment disguised in a livery; and taking my sword to the window, under pretence of admiring the workmanship, ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson
... for a month or two and then an odd circumstance threw us together again. My father, who was still carrying on business in West Bromwich, was a letterpress printer only, but he received an occasional order for copperplate and lithographic work which he handed over either to a Mr Storey in Livery Street, or to the firm of W. & B. Hunt in New Street. I had been over to call on him one evening and he had asked me to attend to some slight commission with either of these firms. I called first on the Livery Street man, whose establishment was just outside ...
— Recollections • David Christie Murray
... to Lord This and the Duke of That—I forget the names. He told me, moreover, that his commission on each car was four hundred pounds. And when we reached his chambers and I saw his furniture and flowers and pictures and servants' livery, I could quite believe it. He was living at the rate of ten thousand a year. Well, we dined as we were, Carville insisting that as I was up from the country they should bar evening dress for one night. This was rather pretty in its ...
— Aliens • William McFee
... Sheridan, "shall we all wonder at what all expected? France may be running mad without waiting for the moon; mad in broad day; absolutely stripping off, not merely the royal livery, which she wore for the last five hundred years with so much the look of a well-bred footman; but tearing away the last coverture of the national nakedness. Well; in a week or two of this process, she will have got rid ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various


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