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livery company

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noun

  1. one of the chartered companies of the City of London originating from the craft guilds

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The portrait was commissioned by the Drapers' Company, the City of London livery company which has been collecting royal portraits for centuries.

From BBC • May 14, 2024

Frost described how he was at the conference in the ornate livery company building on behalf of the Ministry of Justice when he heard shouts downstairs.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2020

It is a livery company, and very rich, governed by a prime and five other wardens, and a court of assistants.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 by Various

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