different between apparel vs livery

English

Etymology

Old French apareillier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??pæ??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??pæ.??l/, /??p?.??l/

Noun

apparel (countable and uncountable, plural apparels)

1. Clothing.
   • 1656, John Denham, The Destruction of Troy

     fresh in his new apparel, proud and young

2. (figuratively) Aspect, guise, form.
   • August 13, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 54

     At public devotions, her winning modesty, her resigned carriage, made virtue and religion appear with new ornaments, and in the natural apparel of simplicity and beauty.

3. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.
4. (nautical) The furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
   • 1871, Travis Twiss, Black Book of the Admiralty

     And if there is need of any thing, such as ship's apparel or other necessaries, and the merchants desire to purchase them, they may do so, and when the voyage is concluded, the merchants may claim for themselves the things which they have bought for the ship or vessel

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

Translations

Verb

apparel (third-person singular simple present apparels, present participle appareling or apparelling, simple past and past participle appareled or apparelled)

1. (transitive) To dress or clothe; to attire.
   • 1568, Bishops' Bible, Luke vii. 25

     They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.

   • 1881, Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

     presently entered a baron and an earl appareled after the Turkish fashion in long robes of bawdkin powdered with gold

2. (transitive) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.

3. (transitive) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental

Synonyms

• (to dress): dight, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe
• (to furnish with apparatus): kit out
• (to dress with external ornaments): adorn, ornament; see also Thesaurus:decorate

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman liveree, from Old French livree. Compare modern French livrée.

Alternative forms

• liveray

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?v.?.?i/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?v.??/, /?l?v.?.??/
• Rhymes: -?v(?)??

Noun

livery (countable and uncountable, plural liveries)

1. Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 8:

     And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover ( an accurate portrait of your humble servant), professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed: yet, look you, one is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one mounts a cap and bells or a shovel hat; and a deal of disagreeable matter must come out in the course of such an undertaking.

   • 1996, Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

     By wearing livery, the brewers publicly expressed guild association and solidarity.
2. The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
3. The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
4. (US) A taxicab or limousine.
5. (law) The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
6. (law) The writ by which property is obtained.
7. (historical) The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
   • 1876, James Russell Lowell, Among My Books:Second Series, Keats

     Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields.

9. (historical) A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
10. An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
    • 1825, George Cavendish, Life of Cardinal Wolsey (edited by Samuel Weller Singer)

      The emperor's officers every night went through the town from house to house whereat any English gentleman did repast or lodge, and served their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar.

11. Release from wardship; deliverance.
12. A low grade of wool.
13. Outward markings, fittings or appearance
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2:

      When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,

      dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,

      Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,

      Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:

Derived terms

• livery stable

Translations

Verb

livery (third-person singular simple present liveries, present participle liverying, simple past and past participle liveried)

1. (archaic) To clothe.

   He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.

Translations

Etymology 2

liver +? -y

Adjective

livery (comparative more livery, superlative most livery)

1. Like liver.
   • 2004, Anne DesBrisay, Capital Dining: Anne DesBrisay's Guide to Ottawa Restaurants, ECW Press ?ISBN, page 19

     We are happy for the chopped mushrooms within the warm goose liver paté, for the coarse, highly seasoned wedge has a robust livery flavour the 'shrooms manage to ease.

   • 2010, Christopher Kimball, Fannie's Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     A second test was similar, but we brought the internal temperature up to 130 degrees; the texture was chewy, the meat tasted livery, and had not melted.

   • 2010, Fidel Toldr, Handbook of Meat Processing, John Wiley & Sons ?ISBN, page 35

     Sulfur-containing compounds (thiols, sulfides, thiazoles, sulfur-substituted furans) can interact with carbonyl compounds to produce a livery flavor.

2. Queasy, liverish.
   • 2011, Dr Dorothy Shepherd, Homoeopathy For The First Aider, Random House ?ISBN, page 58

     The biliousness and livery feeling will disappear and the feeling of joy and happiness will be the reward.

   • 2011, Alec Waugh, Fuel for the Flame, A&C Black ?ISBN

     He felt fresh and buoyant. When he was young, and had taken a siesta, he had felt livery for a couple of hours afterwards, with a tongue like a chicken run

   • 2014, Emily Hahn, China to Me: A Partial Autobiography, Open Road Media ?ISBN

     To like everyone and to be happy with anyone was a virtue and its own reward, but I realized now that for weeks I had been feeling livery, impatient, restless.

Anagrams

• verily