| 单词 | livery-stable keeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslivery-stable keeper General attributive, esp. in livery-stable keeper. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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