Livery Coat

“Take the livery-coat of that noble prisoner,” said Captain ❋ Unknown (2008)

A lady entered, accompanied by a girl of eighteen, her daughter, and followed by a lackey in a furred livery-coat. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A tall old porter used to stand there in a long livery-coat and a cocked-hat; on holidays he appeared in the traditional garb of the Parisian "Suisse," magnificent in silk stockings and a heavily laced coat of dark green, leaning upon his tall mace -- a constant object of wonder to the small boys of the quarter. ❋ Unknown (1881)

He had kept his brown livery-coat, only his wife had taken the silver buttons off and put brass ones instead, because they did not think it polite to Mr. Coleman in his fallen fortunes to let his crest be seen upon the box of a cab. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

'I've been making Jem try on his livery-coat that he hasn't worn this three or four years, -- he's got too stout for it now.' ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

"George," and get a livery-coat for Thomas, which I've long been wanting, only dear Mr. Gibson did not like it, but on an occasion like this I'm sure he won't mind; and Thomas shall go on the box, and -- ' ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

In vain the regent said to him, at each new favor that he granted, "Dubois, take care, it is only a livery-coat that I am putting on your back." ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

He lived with a Doctor, and carried nostrums from morning till night: his master giving him a livery-coat, to raise his own consequence with those he attended. ❋ Unknown (1824)

Having told him that I was myself, instead of a better; and having asked him to step in, that I might have a glimpse of his face at the candle, I saw that he was a stranger, dressed in a droll auld-farrant green livery-coat, faced with white. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)

"Take the livery-coat of that noble prisoner," said Captain Dalgetty; ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

Lady’s page that was, when your switch was up, it was no fear of you, but of your betters, that kept mine down — and I wot not what hinders me from clearing old scores with this hazel rung, and showing you it was your Lady’s livery-coat which I spared, and not your flesh and blood, Master Roland.” ❋ Unknown (2008)