different between clothes vs livery
clothes
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English clothes, cloþes, plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”), from Old English cl?þas (“clothes”), plural of cl?þ (“cloth”), equivalent to cloth +? -s. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Danish klæder, Norwegian Bokmål klær, Norwegian Nynorsk klede.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kl??(ð)z/
- (US) IPA(key): /klo?(ð)z/
- Homophone: close (when /ð/ is omitted)
- Rhymes: -??ðz, -??z
Noun
clothes pl (plural only)
- (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
- (obsolete) plural of cloth.
- The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
- 1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove
- She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.
- 1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove
- laundry (hung on a clothesline)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: krosi
Translations
See also
- clothing
- gear
- threads
- habiliment
Etymology 2
clothe +? -s
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kl??ðz/
- (US) IPA(key): /klo?ðz/
- Rhymes: -??ðz
Verb
clothes
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clothe
References
- clothes in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- clothes at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- cholest., closeth
Middle English
Alternative forms
- clathes, cloþes
Noun
clothes
- plural of cloth
Descendants
- English: clothes
- Scots: clathes, claes, clais, claise
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livery
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)
- 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.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 8:
- The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
- The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
- (US) A taxicab or limousine.
- (law) The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
- (law) The writ by which property is obtained.
- (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.
- 1876, James Russell Lowell, Among My Books:Second Series, Keats
- (historical) A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
- 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.
- 1825, George Cavendish, Life of Cardinal Wolsey (edited by Samuel Weller Singer)
- Release from wardship; deliverance.
- A low grade of wool.
- 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:
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2:
Derived terms
- livery stable
Translations
Verb
livery (third-person singular simple present liveries, present participle liverying, simple past and past participle liveried)
- (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)
- 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.
- 2004, Anne DesBrisay, Capital Dining: Anne DesBrisay's Guide to Ottawa Restaurants, ECW Press ?ISBN, page 19
- 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.
- 2011, Dr Dorothy Shepherd, Homoeopathy For The First Aider, Random House ?ISBN, page 58
Anagrams
- verily
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