livery stable

American  

noun

1. a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.

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livery stable British  

noun

1. a stable where horses are accommodated and from which they may be hired out

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Etymology

Origin of livery stable

First recorded in 1695–1705

Example Sentences

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livery stable

The second floor of the livery stable was used as a boarding house for Black people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

Rhoden lived on Cranberry Street, in a converted livery stable, built in 1899, which she and her sculptor husband, John, bought in 1960.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2018

It had been home to a blacksmith who operated a livery stable there.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2016

Their daughter, Dollie Morgan Sylvester, married an enterprising young man named Reuben Kiger, who owned a local livery stable.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2015

On the afternoon of April 18, 1775, a young boy who worked at a livery stable in Boston overheard one British army officer say to another something about “hell to pay tomorrow.”

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell