livery

• All the driving is done by the postilions The postilions dress in a sort of livery, which is quite gay in its appearance, being trimmed with red. —  Rollo in Rome
• Behind came a hundred horsemen in livery, and the line was closed by a crowd of archers in Lincoln green, bearing cross-bows. —  The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel
• You see, Dad didn't have the reputation of being the squarest man in San Bernardino for nothing Chapter Two My mother's family had never approved of her marriage with Dad, but Dad, poor and running a hardware shop or a livery-stable, and Dad with a fortune in his hands were two very different people--from their standpoint, at least; so as soon as Olaf and the three burros struck it rich, Dad sold his livery-stable, and mammy Rachel and I were bundled off to Ninette's relations in New Orleans. —  Cupid's Understudy
• The Prince and the gentleman who accompanied us wore a gaudy uniform like a livery, which we were told was the Chantilly uniform, and that at each palace belonging to the Prince there was a different uniform worn by him and his court At Paris we were received with the kindest hospitality by M. and Mme. —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
• When the instruments were finished, as far as construction was concerned, they were clothed in coats of the master's livery--"Dodd's varnish," the secret of making which he kept carefully to himself. —  The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators

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