| 单词 | livery servant |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslivery servant livery servant n. (a) a servant who wears livery (see Compounds 1c); †(b) = livery fish n. (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > [noun] > liveried livery attendant1599 liveryman1616 livery1628 livery servanta1685 commissionaire1869 a1685 M. Evelyn Mundus Muliebris (1690) Pref. sig. A4 A crue of Damme Lacqueys, which a Grave Livery Servant or two supply'd. 1702 Order in Council 8 Mar. in London Gaz. No. 3791/4 That..all Lords..do..cloath their Livery Servants with Black Cloth. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. ii. 24 They will go in the character of livery-servants to stand behind the chairs of the great. 1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 258 Cook wrasse, blue-striped wrasse,..Livery-servant and livery-fish in the north of Ireland. 1982 Times 6 Nov. p. viii/1 The children..enjoyed their visit, chatting to the coachmen and postilions and junior livery servants. < as lemmas |
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