Livery vs. Clothing — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Livery and Clothing
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Livery
A livery is a uniform, insignia or symbol adorning, in a non-military context, a person, an object or a vehicle that denotes a relationship between the wearer of the livery and an individual or corporate body. Often, elements of the heraldry relating to the individual or corporate body feature in the livery.
Clothing
Clothing (also known as clothes, apparel, and attire) are items worn on the body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin sheets of materials and natural products found in the environment, put together.
Livery
A distinctive uniform worn by the male servants of a household.
Clothing
Clothes considered as a group; wearing apparel.
Livery
The distinctive dress worn by the members of a particular group; uniform
Ushers in livery.
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Clothing
A covering.
Livery
The costume or insignia worn by the retainers of a feudal lord.
Clothing
Present participle of clothe
Livery
The boarding and care of horses for a fee.
Clothing
Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.
You should wear warm clothing when it is cold outside.
All but two pieces of clothing came out of the washing machine stained.
A poncho is an item of clothing used by many people in Latin America.
A shirt is an article of clothing that covers the torso and arms.
Livery
The hiring out of horses and carriages.
Clothing
An act or instance of putting clothes on.
The clothing and unclothing of the idols was of special significance.
Livery
A livery stable.
Clothing
(obsolete) The art or process of making cloth.
Livery
A business that offers vehicles, such as automobiles or boats, for hire.
Clothing
A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
Livery
(Law) Official delivery of property, especially land, to a new owner.
Clothing
Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
From others he shall stand in need of nothing,Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing.
As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth.
Livery
Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
Clothing
The art of process of making cloth.
Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing.
Livery
The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
Clothing
A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
Livery
The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
The airline's new livery received a mixed reaction from the press.
Clothing
See Card clothing, under 3d Card.
Livery
(US) A taxicab or limousine.
Clothing
A covering designed to be worn on a person's body
Livery
(legal) The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
Livery
(legal) The writ by which property is obtained.
Livery
(historical) The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
Livery
(historical) A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
Livery
An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
Livery
Release from wardship; deliverance.
Livery
A low grade of wool.
Livery
Outward markings, fittings or appearance
Livery
(archaic) To clothe.
He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.
Livery
Like liver.
Livery
Queasy, liverish.
Livery
The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.
Livery
Release from wardship; deliverance.
It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative.
Livery
That which is delivered out statedly or formally, as clothing, food, etc.
A Haberdasher and a Carpenter,A Webbe, a Dyer, and a Tapicer,And they were clothed all in one liveryOf a solempne and a gret fraternite.
From the periodical deliveries of these characteristic articles of servile costume (blue coats) came our word livery.
Livery
Hence, any characteristic dress or outward appearance.
Now came still evening on, and twilight grayHad in her sober livery all things clad.
Livery
A low grade of wool.
Livery
An allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
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 pots, and white wine, and sugar.
Livery
The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery.
What livery is, we by common use in England know well enough, namely, that is, allowance of horse meat, as to keep horses at livery, the which word, I guess, is derived of livering or delivering forth their nightly food.
It need hardly be observed that the explanation of livery which Spenser offers is perfectly correct, but . . . it is no longer applied to the ration or stated portion of food delivered at stated periods.
Livery
The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept; also, the place where horses are so kept, also called a livery stable.
Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields.
Livery
To clothe in, or as in, livery.
Livery
Uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs
Livery
The voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
Livery
The care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay
Livery
Suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
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