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Livery is the formal dress of an upper class servant, usually suggesting the 18th century with gold braid, gold buttons, waistcoat, pumps, powdered wig. The Queen's footmen wear livery on formal occasions.

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uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay (= delivery) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another (= bilious) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress

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