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Finery vs Livery - What's the difference?

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Finery is a related term of livery.


As nouns the difference between finery and livery

is that finery is (obsolete) fineness; beauty while livery is any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.

As a verb livery is

(archaic) to clothe.

finery

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) Fineness; beauty.
  • Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
  • (ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
  • * 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 160:
    • In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining.

    Related terms

    * fine

    See also

    * (charcoal hearth) refinery

    livery

    English

    (wikipedia livery)

    Noun

    (liveries)
  • Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
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  • * J. M. Bennett
    • By wearing livery , the brewers publicly expressed guild association and solidarity.
  • The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
  • (US) A taxicab or limousine.
  • (legal) The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
  • (legal) 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.
  • * Lowell
    • Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields.
  • (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.
  • * Cavendish
    • 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.
  • Release from wardship; deliverance.
  • * Milton
    • It concerned them first to sue out their livery from the unjust wardship of his encroaching prerogative.
  • A low grade of wool.

    • Derived terms

    * livery stable

    Verb

  • (archaic) To clothe.
    • He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.

    Anagrams

    * verily English transitive verbs