| 单词 | livery |
| 释义 | livery 1. n. (pl. -ies) 1. a distinctive clothing worn by a member of a City Company or by a servant. b membership of a City livery company. 2. a distinctive guise or marking or outward appearance (birds in their winter livery). 3. a distinctive colour scheme in which the vehicles, aircraft, etc., of a particular company or line are painted. 4. US a place where horses can be hired. 5. hist. a provision of food or clothing for retainers etc. 6. Law a the legal delivery of property. b a writ allowing this. Phrases and idioms at livery (of a horse) kept for the owner and fed and groomed for a fixed charge. livery company Brit. one of the London City Companies that formerly had a distinctive costume. livery stable a stable where horses are kept at livery or let out for hire. Derivatives liveried adj. (esp. in senses 1, 2). Etymology: ME f. AF liver{eacute}, OF livr{eacute}e, fem. past part. of livrer DELIVER 2. adj. 1. of the consistency or colour of liver. 2. Brit. (of soil) tenacious. 3. colloq. liverish. |
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