livery

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈlɪv(ə)ɹi/    美 /ˈlɪv(ə)ɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants. countable,uncountable
    — And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover ( an accurate portrait of your humble servant), professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed: yet, look you, one is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one mounts a cap and bells or a shovel hat; and a deal of disagreeable matter must come out in the course of such an undertaking.
  2. The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies. countable,uncountable
  3. The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles. countable,uncountable
    — The airline's new livery received a mixed reaction from the press.
  4. A taxicab or limousine. US,countable,uncountable
  5. The delivery of property from one owner to the next. countable,uncountable
  6. The writ by which property is obtained. countable,uncountable
  7. The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money. countable,historical,uncountable
    — […] Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields.
  8. A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental. countable,historical,uncountable
  9. An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc. countable,uncountable
    — The emperor's officers every night went through the town from house to house whereat any English gentleman did repast or lodge, and served their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar.
  10. Release from wardship; deliverance. countable,uncountable
    — It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative.
  11. A low grade of wool. countable,uncountable
  12. Outward markings, fittings or appearance countable,uncountable
    — When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:
动词 v.
  1. To clothe. archaic,transitive
    — He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.
形容词 adj.
  1. Like liver.
    — We are happy for the chopped mushrooms within the warm goose liver paté, for the coarse, highly seasoned wedge has a robust livery flavour the 'shrooms manage to ease.
  2. Queasy, liverish.
    — He woke feeling livery, and aware that he had overslept the morning.

词形变化

liveries plural liveray alternative,obsolete liverie alternative,obsolete liveries present,singular,third-person liverying participle,present liveried participle,past liveried past liveray alternative,obsolete liverie alternative,obsolete more livery comparative most livery superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
coign and livery devil's livery livery stable liverywoman livery yard relivery servant out of livery sue one's livery

词源

词源 1
From Middle English livery, liveree, from Anglo-Norman liveree, from Old French livree. Compare modern French livrée.
词源 2
From Middle English *livery, from Old English lifriġ (“relating to the liver, livery”), equivalent to liver + -y.
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