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liveryman

[ liv-uh-ree-muhn, liv-ree- ]

noun

plural liverymen.
  1. an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
  2. British. a freeman of the City of London, entitled to wear the livery of the ancient guild or city district to which he belongs and to vote in the election of Lord Mayor, chamberlain, and other municipal and honorary officers.
  3. Obsolete. a person in livery, especially a servant.


liveryman

/ 藞濒瑟惫蓹谤瑟尘蓹苍 /

noun

  1. a member of a livery company
  2. a worker in a livery stable
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Gender Note

See -man.
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of liveryman1

First recorded in 1675鈥85; livery 1 + -man
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In a world without butlers and liverymen and cooks, the babysitter is the only domestic employee most of us will ever hire.

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The kooky inventor of a horseless carriage rivals a banker鈥檚 son for a liveryman鈥檚 daughter.

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I turned the former liveryman鈥檚 quarters, with its terra-cotta floor and stenciled walls, into my office.

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It is 400 years since James I signed a royal charter decreeing that liverymen from the City of London should be among the English colonisers of the strategically useful port of Derry.

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Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to insect the measures used in public houses.

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