liveries

We have found lemma(root) word of liveries : livery.

Definitions


[ˈlɪv(ə)ri], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a special uniform worn by a servant, an official, or a member of a City Company
(e.g: yeomen of the guard wearing a royal red and gold livery)


- (in the UK) the members of a City livery company collectively

- a provision of food or clothing for servants

- the ceremonial procedure at common law of conveying freehold land to a grantee


Phrases:
- at livery

Origin:
Middle English: from Old French livree ‘delivered’, feminine past participle of livrer, from Latin liberare ‘liberate’ (in medieval Latin ‘hand over’). The original sense was ‘the dispensing of food, provisions, or clothing to servants’; hence livery, also ‘allowance of provender for horses’, surviving in the phrase at livery and in livery stable. livery arose because medieval nobles provided matching clothes to distinguish their servants from others'


[ˈlɪv(ə)ri], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- resembling liver in colour or consistency
(e.g: he was short with livery lips)

- (of soil) heavy


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definition by Oxford Dictionaries