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{{Short description|Uniform, insignia or symbol}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Other uses}} [[File:Yeomen of the Guard.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Yeomen of the Guard]] processing to [[St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle|St George's Chapel]], [[Windsor Castle|Windsor]] for the annual service of the [[Order of the Garter]] in 2006]] A '''livery''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|ɪ|v|@r|i}} is an identifying design, such as a uniform, ornament, symbol, or insignia that designates ownership or affiliation, often found on an individual or vehicle. Livery often includes elements of the [[heraldry]] relating to the individual or corporate body featured in the livery. Alternatively, some kind of a personal [[emblem]] or badge, or a distinctive colour, is featured. The word itself derives from the [[French language|French]] ''livrée'', meaning ''dispensed, handed over''. Most often it would indicate that the wearer of the livery was a servant, dependant, follower or friend of the owner of the livery, or, in the case of objects, that the object belonged to them. In the late medieval phenomenon of [[bastard feudalism]], livery badges worn by the "retainers" of great lords, sometimes in effect private armies, became a great political concern in England.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}
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