单词 | livery towel |
释义 | > as lemmaslivery towel (b) Intended for the use of servants: as livery bedstead, livery feather bed, livery meal, livery towel, etc. Now historical. ΚΠ 1573 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 12 Wax, rosell & turpentine to gome the livery beddes. 1582 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 46 vij long table towells, and iiij liveraye towells. 1610 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. iv The Butler's Chamber. Impr. a leverye bedstead, with a tester of buckram. 1621 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 167 Two of the ordinarie lyverie fetherbedes. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 341 The practise of giving them six and a half bolls of meal..is daily becoming more general. These farmers, who keep any married servants, have them all on this establishment of livery meal. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. III. 141 Victuals in the house, or livery meal and kitchen money yearly. 1929 Norfolk Archaeol. 23 iii. 319 Livery bedsteads and featherbeds appear in most rooms, including some of the reception rooms! 1943 Burlington Mag. May 111/2 In less important rooms are ‘livery bedsteads’. < as lemmas |
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