livery-stable
A stable where horses are kept at livery, or are let out (with or without carriages) for hire. (Also livery and bait stable.)
| 1705 Lond. Gaz. No. 4182/4 Left at a Livery Stable.., a Chesnut Mare. 1714 Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I. 95 Houses, in which women are hir'd as publickly as horses at a livery stable. 1839 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 114 A fly..furnished us from a livery-stable. 1840 Thackeray Catherine v, The livery-stable was hard by. |
| Comb. 1736 Rhode Island Col. Rec. (1859) IV. 527 Alexander Thorp, livery stable keeper, and Isaac Cusno, saddler. 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. i. ii, A livery stable-yard in Duke Street. 1867 Trollope Chron. Barset II. lii. 95, I should be so much obliged if I might be allowed to pay the livery-stable keeper's bill. |