- n. 制服；特殊的服装；代养业务
名复: liveries
livery
KK:[ˈlɪvǝrɪ] DJ:[ˈlivǝri]
n.
- （男仆等穿的或行业等采用的）制服[U][C]
- 【诗】特殊的服装（或装束、外貌）[U]
- （马的）代养业务；【美】（马或马车的）出租[U]
- 【美】汽车（或自行车等）出租商行[C]
辨析
以上来源于：《英汉大辞典》
livery1
n.
(pl. liveries)
- 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.
- (in the UK) the members of a City livery company collectively.
- historical a provision of food or clothing for servants.
- (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.
- resembling liver in colour or consistency. ▸informal liverish.
- dialect (of soil) heavy.
以上来源于：《简明牛津英语词典》
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