liveryman
Americannoun
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an owner of or an employee in a livery stable.
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British. a freeman of the City of London, entitled to wear the livery of the ancient guild or city district to which he belongs and to vote in the election of Lord Mayor, chamberlain, and other municipal and honorary officers.
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Obsolete. a person in livery, especially a servant.
noun
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a member of a livery company
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a worker in a livery stable
Gender
See -man.
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Etymology
Origin of liveryman
Example Sentences
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His father was a liveryman and retired soldier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2025
Sigurd was hustled down to the laundry, put through merciless ablutions and rushed off to the college barn, our impromptu theater, in the snug little vehicle that our liveryman called his "coop."
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee
"Suppose we call the liveryman up on the 'phone and see what he has to say, and then call up the girls?"
From The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box by Stratemeyer, Edward
The liveryman was, in fact, armed at the time, and the disposition of many citizens was to "let him learn his lesson."
From They of the High Trails by Garland, Hamlin
The oath was that one was a freeman of London, a liveryman of a certain named company, had been so for 12 months, and had named his place of abode.
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by Reilly, S. A.
The results were sensational: for the first time in memory, liverymen removed the summertime fly nets from their horses.
From Time Magazine Archive
The A. F. S. consists of people of all classes, butchers and baronets, clerks and cooks, lawyers and liverymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The open sympathizers of the Falling Wall men were among trainmen, liverymen, the clerks, the barbers and bartenders, and those who could be usually counted as "agin the government."
From Laramie Holds the Range by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
Here are held the meetings of the Court of Common Hall, that court being an assemblage of all the liverymen of the various guilds.
From Memorials of Old London Volume I by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
A good part of the baggage went off the day before yesterday in the King's wagons; an assistant-cook and two liverymen yesterday.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis
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