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单词 livery stable
释义

livery stablen.

Brit. /ˈlɪv(ə)rɪ ˌsteɪbl/, U.S. /ˈlɪv(ə)ri ˌsteɪb(ə)l/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: livery n., stable n.1
Etymology: < livery n. + stable n.1 Compare later livery and bait n.
A stable where horses are kept at livery (livery n. 7a), or (now historical) are let out for hire (with or without a carriage). Cf. livery and bait stable at livery and bait n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stable
horse-housec1175
stablec1250
guest-stable1471
livery stable1661
brush stable1835
livery1888
boarding-stable1903
run-in shed1946
stable block1977
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) at Livery We call that a Livery stable, where strangers horses are admitted at an allowance of so much by the week, or by the day and night for Hay and Oats.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4182/4 Left at a Livery Stable,..a Chesnut Mare.
1784 tr. Mod. Atalantis 5 The sole study of the Chevalier was the sportsman's calendar, and his only school for eloquence was the livery stable.
1839 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 114 A fly..furnished us from a livery-stable.
1890 Times 30 Dec. 11/3 He went to a livery stable, and there, by the permission of the prisoner, a horse saddle and bridle were handed over to him.
1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair i. 10 Across the narrow lane, face to face in perpetual enmity, stood the local livery stable and the town's newest garage.
1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 122 Some people simply went to livery stables, where you could rent horses or have your own animals stabled.

Compounds

General attributive, esp. in livery-stable keeper.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stable-keeper
stable-keeperc1440
stabler1508
stall-keeper1591
livery-stable keeper1703
stabulist1826
liveryman1841
livery1986
1703 Eng. Lucian 10 He..then went down to drink with the Jew, the Owler, and his Pimp the Livery Stables-Man by Moor-fields.
1736 Rec. Colony Rhode Island (1859) IV. 527 Alexander Thorp, livery stable keeper, and Isaac Cusno, saddler.
1788 Times 23 Jan. 23/4 A new built Brick Dwelling-House with a compact Livery Stable Yard.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ii. 5 A livery stable-yard in Duke Street.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lii. 95 I should be so much obliged if I might be allowed to pay the livery-stable keeper's bill.
1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 223 Shimmying the fast shimmy to the Livery Stable Blues.
1999 T. May Victorian & Edwardian Horse Cabs 13 People who operated cabs often did so as part of some other equestrian business, such as that of livery-stable keeper, or jobmaster.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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