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the colours in which the vehicles, aircraft or products of a particular company are painted （车辆、飞机等涂的）公司专用色彩 aircraft painted in the new British Airways livery 已漆上新英航专用色彩的飞机
a special uniform worn by servants or officials, especially in the past （尤指旧时仆人或官员的）制服 coachmen wearing their distinctive livery of red and gold 穿着独特的红色和金色制服的马车夫
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French livree ‘delivered’, feminine past participle of livrer, from Latin liberare ‘liberate’ (in medieval Latin ‘hand over’). The original sense was ‘the dispensing of food, provisions, or clothing to servants’; also ‘allowance of fodder for horses’, surviving in the phrase at livery and in livery stable. The current senses arose because medieval nobles provided matching clothes to distinguish their servants from the servants of others'.