单词 | liveryman |
释义 | liverymann. 1. a. A liveried official, retainer, or servant. Also in extended use. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] > liveried livery attendant1599 liveryman1616 livery1628 livery servanta1685 commissionaire1869 1616 R. Niccols Londons Artillery 6 Some forc't by want to say by learnings worth, Turne Liuerie men. 1693 London Gaz. No. 2877/1 After them Sir William's own Livery-men, to the number of 12, all with their Hats off. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. iii. 340 Some inferiour Officer or Livery-Man of the Train. 1777 D. Garrick Alchymist i. 7 The good, Honest, plain, livery-man, that kept Your master's worship's house here in the Friars, For the vacations. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. vii. 190 Officers of the Earl's household, livery-men, and retainers, went and came. 1879 J. R. Planché Sleeping Beauty in T. F. D. Croker & S. Tucker Extravaganzas 109 John Quill (his Ex-Clerk and present humble Servant, a livery-man out of livery), Mr Harley. 1937 G. S. Thomson Life in Noble Househ. 118 Being livery men, the footmen had their clothes supplied to them. 1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 11 Jan. 13 Unless we resolutely treat sexual irregularity as irrelevant to politics, we shall be arming malignant men who own newspapers, and their liverymen,..with breakers' power over government. 2005 Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi) (Nexis) 6 Mar. g1 The early Irish came here as indentured servants, liverymen, hotel workers, gardeners and for other labor-intensive occupations. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > member of subfamily Lithosiidae (footman) liveryman1744 footman1775 1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 458 Those [Caterpillars] to which Gardeners have given the Name of Liverymen, by reason of the Distribution of their Colours. 2. A member of a City of London livery company who is entitled to wear the livery (livery n. 11a) of the company to which he or she belongs, and to exercise certain other privileges.Freemen of a company may advance to the status of liverymen after meeting the prescribed conditions. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > one possessing freedom of a city or company freeman1387 baron1576 charterer?1592 libertine?1611 livery1630 liveryman1641 society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > livery company > member livery1630 liveryman1641 1641 Rates Poll-money (single sheet) Every person that is or hath bin Warden of any of the Companies last named, five pounds.—— Every livery man, 3 pound. 1659 W. Prynne Concordia Discors 38 All Aldermen, Governors, Assistants, Livery men, Common Counsel-men, and Freemen whatsoever of every City, Corporation, Society, Company, Fraternity, throughout the Realme, have likewise taken another Oath beginning thus. 1682 Modest Enq. Election Sheriffs London 21 In the Case of my Lord Mayors imposing a Sheriff upon the City, without the concurrence of the Livery-men. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 241 All freemen or Liverymen of this city hath a Right to Choose their sherriffs. 1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 149 The lord mayor, at the request of a numerous body of liverymen, having summoned a common-hall. 1861 Evening Star 4 Oct. He is a Liveryman—and a member of one of the twelve great companies. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xx. 416 The franchise was formally transferred to the livery~men of the companies. 1941 D. Mackail Barrie xxii. 597 On July 3rd there was another ceremony and another speech, when Barrie, Lord Balfour, and Rudyard Kipling were admitted as Honorary Freemen and Liverymen of the Stationers' Company. 2000 Printing World 7 Feb. 20/2 In their most influential years, both Charles Fourdrinier (1834) and John Dickinson (1857/58) were Masters of the Stationers' Company and subsequent generations of management have all been Liverymen. 3. †(a) A servant employed in the stables of a household. Obsolete. (b) A keeper of or attendant at a livery stable. Now chiefly historical. 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 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > other types of servant minstrel?c1225 mill-knavec1380 subdeacona1382 rehetoura1425 daily waiter1519 apparitor1533 Nethinim1535 fealc1650 washpot1678 Sunday outer1837 comprador1840 liveryman1841 running dog1969 1692 T. Brown tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Mem. Court Spain 187 About the beginning of the Year 1681, all the Livery-men of the Stables having waited Two Years together for their Wages, left the King's Service on the same day. 1713 Mem. Govt. House 3 in tr. A. de Bourbon Wks. (ed. 2) To have them [sc. Prayers] likewise at the Place appointed for the Stables, that the Livery-Men may be present at them.] 1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning ii. vii. 113 ‘Come off, clumsy! you can't manage that 'ere fine hanimal’, cried the liveryman. 1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 135 We had a slight altercation with the livery-man,..who wished to charge us for more days than our ponies had been in pupilage. 1929 E. W. Howe Plain People vii. 68 I soon arranged for a cut rate with the livery man, if I would put away the horse on coming in late at night. 1951 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 20 52/2 Arrangements were made with a livery man to supply a horse when needed. 2004 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 8 Feb. b3 On one occasion when Lincoln was going to attend a political convention, one of his rivals, a liveryman, provided him with a slow horse, hoping that he would not reach his destination on time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1616 |
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