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单词 stand at livery
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to stand at livery
at livery: (of a horse) stabled, fed, and groomed for the owner at a fixed charge; frequently to stand at livery (cf. stand v. 7). Similarly to livery.extracted from liveryn.
to stand at livery
b. figurative and in figurative context, esp. in to stand at livery. Obsolete.
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1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet D ij b They finde all themselues good meales, and stand at liuerie as it were, at other mens tables.
1611 in T. Coryate Crudities sig. a3v And here he disdaind not, in a forraine land To lie at Liuory, while the Horses did stand.
a1625 J. Fletcher Chances iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbv/2 Best hang a signe-post up, to tell the Signiors, Here ye may have lewdnesse at Liverie.
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 157 In whose [sc. Venus'] temple at Corinth two hundred maids daily stood at livery.
1773 D. Garrick Chances iii. i. 32 Best hang a sign-post up, to tell the rakes, Here you may have wenches at livery.
1788 Amicable Quixote I. iv. 113 ‘The Rainbow;’—ay, that's where servants stand at livery.
1866 W. S. Gilbert Ruy Blas i. 52 My fellow-servants mock my weakness ivery, And bait me so, because I stand at livery!
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