In a heightened degree, therefore, the livery comes to be a badge of servitude, or rather servility.

Something of a honorific character always attached to the livery of the armed retainer, but this honorific character disappears when the livery becomes the exclusive badge of the menial.

The livery becomes obnoxious to nearly all who are required to wear it.

We are yet so little removed from a state of effective slavery as still to be fully sensitive to the sting of any imputation of servility.

This antipathy asserts itself even in the case of the liveries or uniforms which some corporations prescribe as the distinctive dress of their employees.