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Word: Livery
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English: from Old French livree ‘delivered’, feminine past participle of livrer, from Latin liberare ‘liberate’ (in medieval Latin ‘hand over’). The original sense was ‘the dispensing of food, provisions, or clothing to servants’; hence livery (sense 4), also ‘allowance of provender for horses’, surviving in the phrase at livery and in livery stable. livery (sense 1) arose because medieval nobles provided matching clothes to distinguish their servants from others'
ˈlɪv(ə)ri
a special uniform worn by a servant, an official, or a member of a City Company
Short Definition:type of uniform
Examples:- yeomen of the guard wearing a royal red and gold livery
- pageboys in scarlet and green livery
livery stable
(in the UK) the members of a City livery company collectively.
Short Definition:members of livery company
a provision of food or clothing for servants.
Short Definition:provision of food or clothes for servants
the ceremonial procedure at common law of conveying freehold land to a grantee.
Short Definition:ceremonial procedure
Word: Livery
Speech Type: Adjective
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