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   livery

   /ˈlɪv(ə)ri/

   noun

   • 1. a special uniform worn by a servant, an official, or a member of a City Company: "yeomen of the guard wearing a royal red and gold livery"
   • ▪ a special design and colour scheme used on the vehicles, aircraft, or products of a particular company: "the city's trams are painted in a red and white livery"
   • 2. short for livery stable North American
   • 3. (in the UK) the members of a City livery company collectively.
   • 4. a provision of food or clothing for servants. historical
   • 5. the ceremonial procedure at common law of conveying freehold land to a grantee. historical British

   Word Origin 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 livery1 (sense 4), also ‘allowance of provender for horses’, surviving in the phrase at livery and in livery stable. livery1 (sense 1) arose because medieval nobles provided matching clothes to distinguish their servants from others'.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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   Livery can be a noun meaning a uniform, a design, a delivery, or a stable, or an adjective meaning resembling liver or suggesting liver disorder. Learn more about the word history, synonyms, examples, and related phrases of livery.

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   a distinctive design or color scheme that marks something, especially a bus, train, airplane, etc., as belonging to a particular company or organization: This airline's red-and-blue livery makes its planes easy to spot. a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided for servants.

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   Livery is a word that can mean a distinctive uniform, a business that rents out vehicles, or a method of conveying land. Learn the different meanings, synonyms, and translations of livery from various sources.

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   noun. the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another. synonyms: delivery, legal transfer. see more. adjective. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress. synonyms: bilious, liverish. ill, sick. affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function. Cite this entry. Style: MLA.

8. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishLIVERY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   Livery is a noun that means a distinctive uniform, badge, or device, or the keeping and feeding of horses for pay. It can also be an adjective that means resembling liver or liverish. See different meanings, word forms, and usage examples of livery.