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livery  
KK:[ˈlɪvǝrɪ] DJ:[ˈlivǝri]

名複: liveries  

權威釋義


n.

  1. （男僕等穿的或行業等採用的）制服[U][C]
  2. 【文】特殊的服裝（或裝束、外貌）[U]
  3. （馬的）代養業務；【美】（馬或馬車的）出租[U]
  4. 【美】汽車（或自行車等）出租商行[C]

辨析

同義參見:

clothes robe

以上來源於：《英漢大辭典》

livery1

n.

(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.

Phrase

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

Derivative

  • liveried adj.

Etymology

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’.

livery2

adj.

  1. resembling liver in colour or consistency.
    ▸informal liverish.
  2. dialect (of soil) heavy.

以上來源於：《簡明牛津英語詞典》