liveries

The willows and aspens had long since budded, and were now decking themselves in liveries of fresh young green, and the sap was rising in the pines.

CHAPTER 23 2010

In the gallery opposite the speaker's desk a band was stationed; Negro servants in liveries of white linen hurried noiselessly to and fro.

Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

A coach-and-four, resplendent in liveries, stopped at the door: I knew it well, and so did all Norton Bury.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

As you can see in this collection from the Titanic Awards book, some special airplane paint schemes (known as liveries) may not quite have the effect they intended.

Doug Lansky: 7 Worst Airplane Paint Jobs In The World (PHOTOS) 2010

In return his lord kept open house for his retainers, supplied them with coats, known as liveries, marked with his badge, and undertook to maintain them against all men, either by open force or by supporting them in their quarrels in the law courts; and this maintenance, as it was called, was seldom limited to the mere payment of expenses.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

To such as were victorious, prizes were awarded by the judges, and presented by the hands of the ladies; who also honoured the combatants with the wreath or chaplet, silken drapery, and other appropriate ornaments; and by presenting them with ribbands, or scarfs, of chosen colours, called liveries, spoken of in romance, appear to have been the origin of the ribbands which still distinguish knighthood.

The Lay of Marie Matilda Betham 1814

This corporate identity received reinforcement through various outward signs such as liveries and badges, communal dining and sleeping (except for the householder and his kin) and communal worship in the household chapel.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

As the number of their actual vassals declined with the progress of enfranchisement and the upgrowth of the freeholder, the nobles had found a substitute for them in the grant of their "liveries," the badges of their households, to the smaller gentry and farmers of their neighbourhood, and this artificial revival of the dying feudalism became one of the curses of the day.

History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 John Richard Green 1860

The footmen liveries, sewn by hand, take seven weeks to make.

The Traditions Behind Crowns, Carriages and a Historic Abbey 2011

Furthermore, Ford discontinued the sale of the Lincoln Town Car, which supplied a steady stream of sales to liveries around the U.S. It's unclear whether Lincoln's MKS will be chosen by these fleets as a replacement.

Ford's Lincoln Brand Gets New Life Mike Ramsey 2012