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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LIVERY , originally the See also:

provision of See also:food, clothing, &c., to See also:household servants. The word is an See also:adaptation of the Anglo-See also: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. In the sense of a fixed See also:allowance of provender for horses, it survives now only in "livery-See also:stable," i.e. an See also:establishment where horses and carriages are kept or let out for hire. 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. In the 15th See also: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 "See also: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. The members of the See also:London See also: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 See also:possession of another; for " livery of See also:seisin " see See also:FEOFFMENT.

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