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   livery

   /ˈlɪv(ə)ri/

   noun

   • 1. a special uniform worn by a servant, an official, or a member of a City Company: "yeomen of the guard wearing a royal red and gold livery"
   • ▪ a special design and colour scheme used on the vehicles, aircraft, or products of a particular company: "the city's trams are painted in a red and white livery"
   • 2. short for livery stable North American
   • 3. (in the UK) the members of a City livery company collectively.
   • 4. a provision of food or clothing for servants. historical
   • 5. the ceremonial procedure at common law of conveying freehold land to a grantee. historical British

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French livree ‘delivered’, feminine past participle of livrer, from Latin liberare ‘liberate’ (in medieval Latin ‘hand over’). The original sense was ‘the dispensing of food, provisions, or clothing to servants’; hence livery1 (sense 4), also ‘allowance of provender for horses’, surviving in the phrase at livery and in livery stable. livery1 (sense 1) arose because medieval nobles provided matching clothes to distinguish their servants from others'.

   Scrabble Points: 12

   • L

     1

   • I

     1

   • V

     4

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • Y

     4

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