liveryman
Americannoun
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liverymen
plural
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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
"Seen the Star this week?" he asked Joe Crane, the liveryman, apparently controlling his excitement with difficulty.
From Hempfield A Novel by David Grayson
He summoned one particular liveryman, not a favorite at the fashionable hotel, and to him gave especial injunctions about the horses.
From The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman
“Theery!” exclaimed the liveryman, his pale eyes alight.
From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams
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 Katharine Lee Bates
The A. F. S. consists of people of all classes, butchers and baronets, clerks and cooks, lawyers and liverymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The results were sensational: for the first time in memory, liverymen removed the summertime fly nets from their horses.
From Time Magazine Archive
And we barely had time to finish these miserable meals, in so great haste were the liverymen to resume the journey.
From The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
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 P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
Just then one of the other liverymen drove up with a carriage full of ladies, and they emerged in a flutter of veils and silk skirts.
From The Butterfly House by Paul Julian Meylan
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