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==English==
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===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|en|enm|livery}}, {{m|enm|liveree}}, from {{der|en|xno|liveree}}, from {{der|en|fro|livree}}. Compare modern {{cog|fr|livrée}}.

====Alternative forms====
* {{l|en|liveray}}
* {{alt|en|liverie}} {{q|obsolete}}

====Pronunciation====
* {{audio|en|en-us-livery.ogg|a=US}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈlɪ.və.ɹi/|a=US}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈlɪv.ɹi/|/ˈlɪ.və.ɹi/|a=UK}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪv(ə)ɹɪ}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪvəɹi|s=3}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

# Any distinctive identifying [[uniform]] worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by [[chauffeur]]s and male [[servant]]s.
#* {{RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair|passage=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.|8}}
#* {{RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients|chapter=7|passage=“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘'''livery'''’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a '''livery'''. {{...}}”}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1996|author=w:Judith M. Bennett|title=Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600
|passage=By wearing '''livery''', the brewers publicly expressed guild association and solidarity.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=29 April 2021|author=Jamie Jackson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/apr/29/manchester-united-roma-europa-league-semi-final-first-leg-match-report|work=The Guardian|title=Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six|passage=The 35-year-old must adore this ground as this was his sixth strike in total here: four of these were previously in Manchester City '''livery''', the other in that of Wolfsburg.}}
# The whole body of [[liveryman|liverymen]], members of [[livery company|livery companies]].
# The paint scheme of a [[vehicle]] or [[fleet]] of vehicles.
#: {{ux|en|The airline's new '''livery ''' received a mixed reaction from the press.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1961|month=October|title=Car carriage by rail - at home and abroad: 1. New B.R. "covered wagons"|journal=Trains Illustrated|page=594|text=The glass fibre body has the advantage of lightness and obviates the need for painting as the material is self-coloured in the standard B.R. maroon '''livery'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|work=FT Weekend|section=Life & Arts|page=15|title=Revenge of the moderators|author=w:David Pilling|date=2024-01-13|passage=The roads were jammed with matatu minibuses sporting cartoonish '''liveries''', and trucks billowing black smoke into the dazzling African light.}}
# {{lb|en|US}} A [[taxicab]] or [[limousine]].
# {{lb|en|law}} The delivery of [[property]] from one owner to the next.
# {{lb|en|law}} The [[writ]] by which property is obtained.
# {{lb|en|historical}} The rental of [[horse]]s or [[carriages]]; the rental of [[canoe]]s; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
#* {{RQ:Lowell Among My Books|series=2|page=305|passage={{...}} {{w|Pegasus}} does not stand at '''livery''' even at the largest establishment in Moorfields.}}
# {{senseid|en|stable}}{{lb|en|historical}} A [[stable]] that keeps horses or carriages for [[rental]].
# An allowance of food; a [[ration]], as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1825|editor=Samuel Weller Singer|author={{w|George Cavendish (writer)|George Cavendish}}|title=Life of Cardinal Wolsey|passage=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.}}
# Release from [[wardship]]; [[deliverance]].
#* {{RQ:Milton Eikonoklastes|passage=It concerned them first to sue out their '''livery''' from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative.}}
# A low [[grade]] of [[wool]].
# Outward markings, fittings or appearance
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets|2|text=When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,<br>dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,<br>Thy youth's proud '''livery''', so gazed on now,<br>Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der3|en|coign and livery|devil's livery|livery stable|livery yard|relivery|servant out of livery|sue one's livery}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|distinctive uniform worn by a group}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|լիվրե}}, {{t+|hy|սպասազգեստ}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|ліўрэ́я|f}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|ливре́я|f}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|lliurea|f}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|livrej|f}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|liberi|n}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|livrei|f}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|virka-asu}}, {{t+|fi|livree}}
* French: {{t+|fr|livrée|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Livree|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|στολή|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|libéria}}
* Ido: {{t+|io|livreo}}
* Indonesian: {{t|id|seragam kendaraan}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|éide|f}}, {{t|ga|libhré|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|livrea|f}}, {{t+|it|foggia|f}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|ливре́ја|f}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|livré|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|liberia|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|libré|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|livrea|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ливре́я|f}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|ливре́ја|f}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|livréja|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|livrej|f}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|livreja|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|librea|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|livré|c}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|livre}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|лівре́я|f}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|ליוורעע|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|paint scheme}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|kleurstelling|f}}, {{t+|nl|livrei|m|f}} {{qualifier|Flemish}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|väri|p|alt=värit}}, {{t+|fi|kuosi}}
* French: {{t+|fr|livrée|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Anstrich|m}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|libhré|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|livrea|f}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|malowanie|n}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|ליוורעע|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|taxicab, limousine|taxicab|limousine}}

{{trans-top|legal: delivery of property}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[omaisuus|omaisuuden]] [[luovutus]]}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|legal: writ}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|luovutuskirja}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|archaic}} To [[clothe]].
#: {{ux|en|He '''liveried''' his servants in the most modest of clothing.}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to clothe in}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vaatettaa}}, {{t+|fi|pukea}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|en|enm|*livery}}, from {{inh|en|ang|lifriġ|t=relating to the liver, livery}}, equivalent to {{suf|en|liver|-y|id2=adjectival}}.

====Adjective====
{{en-adj}}

# Like [[liver]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2004|author=Anne DesBrisay|title=Capital Dining: Anne DesBrisay's Guide to Ottawa Restaurants|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=9781550226423|page=19
|passage=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 &#39;shrooms  manage to ease.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Christopher Kimball|title=Fannie's Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook|publisher=Hachette UK|isbn=9781401396299
|passage=A second test was similar, but we brought the internal temperature up to 130  degrees; the texture was chewy, the meat tasted '''livery''', and had not melted.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Fidel Toldr|title=Handbook of Meat Processing|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9780813820965|page=35
|passage=Sulfur-containing compounds (thiols, sulfides, thiazoles, sulfur-substituted  furans) can interact with carbonyl compounds to produce a '''livery''' flavor.}}
# [[queasy|Queasy]], [[liverish]].
#* {{RQ:Lindsay Age of Consent|year=1962|page=204|passage=He woke feeling '''livery''', and aware that he had overslept the morning.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Dr Dorothy Shepherd|title=Homoeopathy For The First Aider|publisher=Random House|isbn=9781446489895|page=58
|passage=The biliousness and '''livery''' feeling will disappear and the feeling of joy and  happiness will be the reward.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Alec Waugh|title=Fuel for the Flame|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9781448202539
|passage=He felt fresh and buoyant. When he was young, and had taken a siesta, he had felt '''livery''' for a couple of hours afterwards, with a tongue like a chicken run}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014|author=Emily Hahn|title=China to Me: A Partial Autobiography|publisher=Open Road Media|isbn=9781497619326
|passage=To like everyone and to be happy with anyone was a virtue and its own reward,  but I realized now that for weeks I had been feeling '''livery''', impatient, restless.}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=eilrvy|verily}}

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