LIVERY

Livery

A livery is a uniform, insignia or symbol adorning, in a non-military context, a person, an object or a vehicle that denotes a relationship between the wearer of the livery and an individual or corporate body. Often, elements of the heraldry relating to the individual or corporate body feature in the livery. Alternatively, some kind of a personal emblem or badge, or a distinctive colour, is featured.

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livery

Noun

  1. Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
  2. The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
  3. A taxicab or limousine.
  4. The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
  5. The writ by which property is obtained.
  6. The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
  7. A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
  8. An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
  9. Release from wardship; deliverance.
  10. A low grade of wool.

Verb

  1. To clothe in.
    He liveried his servents in the most modest of clothing


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