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LIVERY , originally the See also: provision of See also: food, clothing, &c., to See also: household servants
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The word is an adaptation of the Anglo-French livree, from livrer, to deliver (See also: Late See also: Lat. liberare, to set See also: free, to serve, to give freely), in the See also: special sense of distributing
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In the sense of a fixed allowance of provender for horses, it survives now only in "livery-See also: stable," i.e. an establishment where horses and carriages are kept or let out for hire
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From the meaning of provision of food and clothing the word is applied to a See also: uniform worn by the retainers and servants of a household
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In the 15th century in See also: England a badge, See also: collar or other insignia, the "livery," was worn by all those who pledged themselves to support one of the See also: great barons in return for his promise of "maintenance," i.e. of See also: protection against enemies; thus arose the See also: custom of "livery and maintenance," suppressed by See also: Henry VII
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The members of the
See also: London city companies wore a distinctive See also: costume or " livery," whence the See also: term "livery companies." In See also: law, the term "livery" means "delivery," the legal handing of See also: property into the possession of another; for " livery of seisin " see See also: FEOFFMENT
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