liverie

Noun

livery (countable and uncountable, plural liveries)

1. Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
   • 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...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 8, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
2. The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
3. The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
   • The airline's new livery received a mixed reaction from the press.
4. (US) A taxicab or limousine.
5. The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
6. The writ by which property is obtained.

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