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'Livery' typically refers to a distinctive uniform worn by a specific group, such as a military or public service organization (e.g. firefighters or ambulance drivers). It can also refer to the traditional clothing worn by servants or delivery personnel. For example, you could say: "The livery of the postal delivery staff was a deep blue color."
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livery
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Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
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Europe just now needs the shock of Varoufakis's livery.
If, as the medieval German proverb had it, city air makes you free, City air is expensive, and it's an unfamiliar experience to get this much room in the Square Mile, outside St Paul's Cathedral or a livery hall.
Heatherwick has reintroduced the bench seat of old, but with individual cushions in a bespoke livery.
As well as the llamas, the farm has cornered the market in rural weddings, converting an indoor livery yard into a venue.
There is a splendid montage of a 16th-century banquet staged by one of the City livery companies where the geese, once their flesh had been extracted and cooked, were reconstructed as lifelike table decorations in case the guests needed reminding about what they were eating.Street food has been a feature of the cityscape since earliest times, sometimes sold with complementary pleasures.
Kellogg's Corn Flakes' brash colours sit alongside the rustic livery of "honest, tasty and real" Dorset Cereals on supermarket shelves.Mr Olins is well placed to coach companies and to scold them.
The garish yellow-and-blue livery of its buses made them hard to ignore.So far it has been successful.
But as the startup bug is spreading to innovation hubs across the world, hoodies, T-shirts and sneakers are the new corporate livery.
Basildon, acquired by Fiat in 1998, used to make Ford machines.CNH is marking the occasion with a golden jubilee version of its best-selling models, with a dark-blue livery, gold detailing and a leather seat.
For easy comparison, a Dreamliner in the livery of Qatar Airways was helpfully parked just behind the A350; the Airbus seems much bigger than the Boeing.About 800 of the A350s, which come in three versions with varying length of fuselage, have already been sold.
On its website Mariano Recalde, its boss a former labour lawyer whose father is a pro-government congressman vaunts its change of livery, which now features the national flag's sky blue.
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