livery

UK /ˈlɪv.ɹi/ US /ˈlɪ.və.ɹi/
noun 5adj 2verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.

And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover ( an accurate portrait of your humble servant), professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed: yet, look you, one is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one mounts a cap and bells or a shovel hat; and a deal of disagreeable matter must come out in the course of such an undertaking.

“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”

2

The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.

3

The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.

The airline's new livery received a mixed reaction from the press.

The glass fibre body has the advantage of lightness and obviates the need for painting as the material is self-coloured in the standard B.R. maroon livery.

4

A taxicab or limousine.

5

The delivery of property from one owner to the next.

verb

1

To clothe.

He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.

adj

1

Like liver.

We are happy for the chopped mushrooms within the warm goose liver paté, for the coarse, highly seasoned wedge has a robust livery flavour the 'shrooms manage to ease.

A second test was similar, but we brought the internal temperature up to 130 degrees; the texture was chewy, the meat tasted livery, and had not melted.

2

Queasy, liverish.

He woke feeling livery, and aware that he had overslept the morning.

The biliousness and livery feeling will disappear and the feeling of joy and happiness will be the reward.

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