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liveries
Word definitions for liveries in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of livery English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: livery )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Livery \Liv"er*y\, n.; pl. Liveries . [OE. livere, F. livr['e]e, formerly, a gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to deliver up. See Liberate .] (Eng. ...
Usage examples of liveries.
To have the Canadian dollars to restore the splendour which the Coopers had allowed to run to seed, and to be himself the master of a great house for which his father, the unfortunate Walter, had once supplied the liveries -- was that not a Paradise Regained, an adjustment of the balances of Fortune?
The liveries must fit, and the figures of fat coachmen, and grooms with bandy legs -- for grooms are as bandy as the tailors who sit cross-legged all day on the board -- and footmen who are of all shapes, but must be made to look as much alike as possible, call for the most careful measurement, and the servants can be sharp with the tailor who does not work this near miracle.
He knows them all and identifies the liveries as boys now identify makes of automobiles.
The footman and coachman wore green and silver liveries and seemed to know that people were looking at them and their master.
He must make sure that the grand carriage with the green and silver liveries rolled up with the rest.
The coachman and footman wore dark brown and gold liveries, and the footman had leaped down and opened the door with respectful alacrity.
They looked as if the carriage and the dark brown and gold liveries were every-day affairs to them.
The mother took both of them close to herself, and held a hand of each of them as they knelt down to prayers, which Sir Pitt read to them, and to the servants in their Sunday suits or liveries, ranged upon chairs on the other side of the hissing tea-urn.
Our old friend, Miss Swartz, and her husband came thundering over from Hampton Court, with flaming yellow liveries, and was as impetuously fond of Amelia as ever.
Everything on the table was in silver too, and two footmen, with red hair and canary-coloured liveries, stood on either side of the side-board.
He used to go down on speech-days with four horses and new liveries, and scatter new shillings among the boys at the school where George was: when he went with George to the depôt of his regiment, before the boy embarked for Canada, he gave the officers such a dinner as the Duke of York might have sat down to.
Best were trunks of liveries and house dresses that had been packed away when Mother had chosen more modern ones.
Old liveries had been unearthed and freshened so that those who served the gathering did so as stylishly as those they waited upon.