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Livery

noun

(pl. liveries)

Uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs.

The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another. Synonyms: delivery, legal transfer.

The care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay.

adjective

Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress. Synonyms: bilious, liverish.

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"Livery" Quotes from Famous Books

... too soon. Scarcely had she regained the window-seat, when the hall door opened and Thomas appeared on the sill, almost filling the opening with his tall figure. As a rule he wore his very splendid footman's livery of dark blue coat with dull-gold buttons, blue trousers, and striped buff waistcoat. Now he wore street clothes, and he had a ...

— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates

... churches and altars were polluted by atrocious murders; and it was the boast of the assassins, that their dexterity could always inflict a mortal wound with a single stroke of their dagger. The dissolute youth of Constantinople adopted the blue livery of disorder; the laws were silent, and the bonds of society were relaxed: creditors were compelled to resign their obligations; judges to reverse their sentence; masters to enfranchise their slaves; fathers to supply the extravagance of their children; noble matrons were prostituted to the ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon

... parlor of the hotel Tigre-Royal, in another apartment of the same hotel, seated near a large fire, was a man shaking the snow from his boots, and untying the strings of a large portfolio. This man was dressed in the hunting livery of the house of Orleans; the coat red and silver, large boots, and a three-cornered hat, trimmed with silver. He had a quick eye, a long pointed nose, a round and open forehead, which was contradicted ...

— The Regent's Daughter • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

... after twelve o'clock on that same Ash Wednesday morning, a servant in the Castelmare livery brought a verbal message to the "studio" of Signor Giovacchino Fortini, "procurators,"—attorney-at- law, as we should say,—requesting that gentleman to step as far as the Palazzo Castelmare, as the Marchese would be ...

— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... he might have objected to your driver? You are a whole lot safer with me than you would be with one of those livery-stable helpers up ahead." ...

— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde

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