Livery

Definition: Livery

Livery

Adjective

1. Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress.

Noun

1. Uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs.

2. The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "livery" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

Etymology: Livery \Liv"er*y\, noun; plural Liveries. [Old English livere, French livr['e]e, formerly, a gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, from livrer to deliver, Latin liberare to set free, in Late Latin, to deliver up. See Liberate.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Livery

Age

Phrase: "give me a staff of honor for my age"; bis pueri senes; peu de gens savent elre vieux; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus; "old age is creeping on apace"; "slow-consuming age"'; "the hoary head is a crown of glory"; "the silver livery of advised age"; to grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks that Time has made".

Clothing

Outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals; canonicals; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery; day wear, night wear, zoot suit; designer clothes; masquerade.

Freedom

Franchise, denization; free man, freed man, livery man; denizen.

Indication

Heraldry, crest; coat of arms, arms; armorial bearings, hatchment; escutcheon, scutcheon; shield, supporters; livery, uniform; epaulet, chevron; garland, love knot, favor.

Servant

Attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy; train bearer, cup bearer; waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre; equerry, groom; jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd; barkeeper, bartender; bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper; khansamah, khansaman; khitmutgar; yardman.

Title

Decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown, coronet, star, garter; feather, feather in one,s cap; epaulet, epaulette, colors, livery; order, arms, shield, scutcheon; reward.

Crosswords: Livery

Books

• Ceremonial Barges on the River Thames: A History of the Barges of the City of London Livery Companies and of the Crown (reference)

• Country Tools: Essential Hardware and Livery (reference)

• Mottoes and Badges of Families Regiments Schools Colleges States Towns Livery Companies Society (reference)

• Pride without prejudice : the story of London's guilds & livery companies (reference)

• The city of London and its livery companies (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Shaffer's Boat Livery rents small fishing boats. Credit: Fisheries.

Man in medieval livery with slashed sleeves holding mace. Credit: Library of Congress.

South Carolina. Livery stable gang talking politics in the country of Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old livery stable, East Side, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress.

Front of livery stable, East Side, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crosby, North Dakota. Old livery stables. Credit: Library of Congress.

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A footman, in a handsome livery, came forward and respectfully touched his hat.

In our days, a philosophy which is almost an official has entered into its service, wears its livery, and waits in its antechamber

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Business

The Visit USA Association Ltd. is currently sponsoring a U.S. - themed taxi campaign in London whereby entire taxis are painted in stars and stripes livery, with U.S tourism destinations’ and providers’ promotional art on the taxi sides and backs. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "livery": at livery ♦ keep a horse at livery ♦ livery company ♦ Livery gown ♦ livery in deed ♦ livery in law ♦ livery man ♦ Livery of seizin ♦ livery stable. Additional references.

Beginning with "livery": livery-porters.

Albanian

livre, stallë kuajsh (stabling), me livre, mbajtje kuajsh. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسوة (apparel, attire, clothes, clothing, feather, garments, panoply, vesture), ‏وبر (fur, wool), ‏حصان محبوس, ‏خادم (attendant, boy, factotum, flunkey, flunky, footman, knave, lackey, man, manservant, menial, page, retainer, servant, valet, vassal), ‏إصطبل (mew). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страдащ от черен дроб, раздразнителен (bad tempered, chippy, choleric, edgy, excitable, explosive, fretful, gingery, ill, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, irascible, irritable, liverish, nervous, nervy, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, raspy, ratty, snappish, stroppy, techy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary), кисел (acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, crabbed, crabby, disgruntled, grouchy, grumpy, humpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, liverish, peeved, pettish, petulant, querulous, sour, tart, vinegar, vinegary), облекло на даден еснаф, облекло (apparel, array, attire, clothes, clothing, dress, dressing, fig, garb, garments, investment, rig, rigging, tog, trim, turnout, vest, vesture, wear), ливрея, без настроение (liverish, off color, off colour, out of humor, out of humour, out of sorts, petulant, spiritless, washed out), премяна (accoutrements, apparel, attire, best bib and tucker, dress, fig, finery, get up, glad rags, one's best tucker, tire). (various references)

Czech

livrej. (various references)

Danish

livree. (various references)

Dutch

livrei. (various references)

Finnish

liveri. (various references)

French

livrée. (various references)

German

livree. (various references)

Greek 

κν.λιβρέα, στολή υπηρετή, στολή υπηρετού, οικοστολή υπηρέτη, οικοστολή, διατροφή ή μίσθωσισ ίππων. (various references)

Hebrew 

מלבוש (attire, dress, garment, vestment), מדים (uniform), מדי משרתים, כצבע כבד, בגדי שרד (habiliments, official uniform, uniform), סובל בכבד. (various references)

Hungarian

libéria (Liberia), egyenruha (greens, turnout, uniform), istállózás (housing, stabling), átruházás (assignation, assignment, cession, conferment, conveyance, delegation, demise, devolution, grant, transfer). (various references)

Italian

livrea. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

為着 (servant's clothes provided by employers), 仕着 (servant's clothes provided by employers). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しきせ (servant's clothes provided by employers). (various references)

Manx

eaddagh shirveishagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

iverylay.(various references)

Portuguese

LIBRÉ, libré, uniforme (cloth, equable, equal, even, level, regular, self, solid, steady, uniform, uniformed), rico (abundant, affluent, costly, crummy, flush, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, plummy, plump, podded, pregnant, racy, resourceful, rich, saturated, substantial, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do), irritável (bilious, crab, crabbed, crusty, edgy, fretful, irascible, irritable, liver-colored, liver-coloured, nervous, nervy, petulant, shirty, short-tempered, techy, testy, tetchy, touchy, waspish), indisposto (ailing, cross, ill, ill-affected, indisposed, off-color, off-colour, poorly, uncomfortable, unwell), farda (garb, regimentals, uniform), criadagem (household, household franchise), cocheira (box, cart house, coachhouse, remise, stable, stall). (various references)

Romanian

livrea, uniformã (uniform), punere în posesie, podoabã (adornment, caparison, garnish, ornament, rep, set off, setting off), gãtealã (array, caparison, finery, toilet, trappings). (various references)

Russian 

ливрея. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

livreja, u boji jetre (liver-colored, liver-coloured), predaja (capitulation, commitment, committal, conveyance, handover, surrender), esnafska nošnja, čuvanje konja, članovi esnafa. (various references)

Spanish

librea. (various references)

Swedish

livre, livré, leversjuk (liverish), lever- (hepatic), lättretlig (edgy, excitable, irascible, irritable, liverish), hyrverk (livery stable), dräkt (apparel, attire, costume, dress, garb, garment, gown, habit, vesture). (various references)

Thai

เสื้อผ้าชุดเครื่องแบบ. (various references)

Turkish

yem parası, uşak elbisesi, kiralık at ahırı (livery stable), kıyafet (apparel, attire, caparison, costume, dress, garb, get up, habiliments, habit, togs, turnout, vesture), üniforma (battle dress, harness, investiture, regimentals, service dress, service uniform, undress, uniform). (various references)

Ukrainian

ліврея. (various references)

Vietnamese 

dễ phật ý (liverish), có màu gan mắc bệnh gan, đau gan cáu kỉnh (liverish). (various references)

Welsh

lifrai. (various references)

liberare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "livery": liveryman, liverymen. (additional references)

Words ending with "livery": delivery, nondelivery, postdelivery, predelivery, redelivery. (additional references)

Words containing "livery": deliveryman, deliverymen. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Livery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blipvert, Ilbery, ivery, ivvery, lavery, laverys, lavey, levey, liery, linery, liuerie, liverly, livero, liverp, livert, livey, livor, livrer, liv'ry, livyer, luvey, luvverly, Lyver, olivary, sivery, Vivary. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: livyer, verily.

-1 letter: ervil, liver, livre, riley, viler.

-2 letters: evil, levy, lier, lire, live, lyre, rely, riel, rile, rive, veil, very, vier, vile, virl.

-3 letters: ire, ivy, lei, lev, ley, lie, lye, rei, rev, rye, vie.

-4 letters: el, er, li, re, ye.

+1 letter: devilry, livyers, nervily, silvery, virelay.

+2 letters: delivery, deviltry, fervidly, overwily, silverly, valkyrie, variedly, virelays, virilely.

+3 letters: cursively, diversely, furtively, inversely, liveryman, liverymen, overlying, privately, restively, servilely, servility, valkyries, veeringly, veritably, villagery, virulency.

+4 letters: abortively, abrasively, aversively, cavalierly, coercively, creatively, crescively, curatively, derisively, eruptively, feverishly, grievously, overflying, overlaying, overplying, oversimply, previously, primevally, reactively, redelivery, relatively, relativity, relievedly, replevying, reversibly, rivetingly, rotatively, shrievalty, sportively, vertically, viperously, virulently, viscerally, waveringly.