LIVERY


Meaning of LIVERY in English

1. n. (pl. -ies)

1. a distinctive clothing worn by a member of a City Company or by a servant. b membership of a City livery company.

2 a distinctive guise or marking or outward appearance (birds in their winter livery).

3 a distinctive colour scheme in which the vehicles, aircraft, etc., of a particular company or line are painted.

4 US a place where horses can be hired.

5 hist. a provision of food or clothing for retainers etc.

6 Law a the legal delivery of property. b a writ allowing this.

Phrases and idioms:

at livery (of a horse) kept for the owner and fed and groomed for a fixed charge. livery company Brit. one of the London City Companies that formerly had a distinctive costume. livery stable a stable where horses are kept at livery or let out for hire.

Derivatives:

liveried adj. (esp. in senses 1, 2).

Etymology: ME f. AF liver{eacute}, OF livr{eacute}e, fem. past part. of livrer DELIVER 2. adj.1 of the consistency or colour of liver.

2 Brit. (of soil) tenacious.

3 colloq. liverish.

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.