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  • livery - A company's distinctive color scheme or emblem on vehicles is called the livery; livery first referred to the dispensing of clothes, food, or provisions to servants.
  • gardyloo - A warning cry derived from French gare de l'eau, "beware of the water"—referring to the water and slops that were once thrown by servants from higher stories of a building onto the street.
  • servants' quarters - In Victorian days, they were usually referred to as below stairs; above stairs was the realm of the family.
  • family - First referred to the servants of a household and then to both the servants and the descendants of a common ancestor. It comes from Latin familia, "household; household servants," which came from another Latin term, famulus, "servant." It was not until 1667 that the term was used specifically for parents and their children.
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Then the cook sent three servants after them, who were to run and overtake the children.
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MEN in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business.
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I wish some of your northern servants could look at her closets of dresses,--silks and muslins, and one real linen cambric, she has hanging there.
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