livery

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
livery1

▶noun (pl. liveries)

• 1 a special uniform worn by a servant, an official, or a member of a City Company.

  ■ a distinctive design and colour scheme used on a company's vehicles, aircraft, or products.

• 2 (in the UK) the members of a City livery company collectively.

• 3 historical a provision of food or clothing for servants.

• 4 (in full livery of seisin) Brit. historical the ceremonial procedure at common law of conveying freehold land to a grantee.

– phrases
at livery (of a horse) kept for the owner and fed and cared for at a fixed charge.

– derivatives
liveried adjective.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘the dispensing of food or clothing to servants’, also ‘allowance of provender for horses’, surviving in the phr. at livery and in livery stable): from OFr. livree ‘delivered’, fem. past part. of livrer, from L. liberare ‘liberate’.

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livery2

▶adjective

• 1 resembling liver in colour or consistency.

  ■ informal liverish.

• 2 dialect (of soil) heavy.