The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another

Usage examples of livery.

Sedan chairs borne by trotting bearers became almost as common as people afoot, and, afoot, shopkeepers in coats or dresses heavily embroidered around the chest and shoulders were outnumbered by folk in livery as bright as that of the chair-bearers.

They left their horses at the livery stable behind the saloon, and Charlie walked Angelina to the store.

He squared his shoulders in the new blue livery, drew his whip downwards across the towing horse and out into the waters slipped the Colleen Bawn at a good four miles an hour.

Soon after, a servant in livery brought a bed and a trunk, and the next morning the same servant, knocking at my door, told me that his master begged the honour of my company to breakfast.

The footmen were neatly attired in bottle-green livery, while the maids wore dark gray dresses and snowy bibbed aprons and caps.

It was a Bienvenue employee, dressed in the French-country-inspired livery of the Bienvenue employee.

Ennead cloaks, saw pale faces never graced by sunshine floating over the dark velvet livery the Ennead had lately adopted for their private stewards.

Anzra left Gip at a livery and hired a carriage to deliver him to the royalhouse in Old Irby.

Then a lacquey, in magnificent livery, ushered them into a superb apartment, where they waited some minutes, without being favoured with the appearance of the ladies, to the manifest dissatisfaction of the abbe, who, sending for the gouvernante, reprimanded her severely for her want of politesse.

She had a score of pretty girls in her service, and a dozen footmen all in full livery.

A groom in Den Haurient livery was waiting, the horse he was exercising gulping from the trough for thirsty beasts.

Four minutes later the feverish gamblers in the Salles de Jeu were gratified by the sight of a seraph-like child in blue silk pyjamas who flew gaily round the tables pursued by two stout and joyfully excited Southern Europeans in livery.

Above the swept marble stair, the copper-leafed doors of the council hall stood closed and latched behind guards in red-and-gold livery who held back the crowding, raucous throng which loitered to stare and speculate.

His companionship disdains ceremonious livery, scorns ribbands, and scoffs at gew-gaws.

I walked along to the car where my roomette was, dumped my bag there and took my raincoat to reveal the familiar livery beneath.