sous leur livrée
English translation: under their costume/outer clothes
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Under their clothes (outer clothes). Explanation: This is French and not Spanish. Sous leur livrée means under their outer clothes. The Petit Robert says it's an ancient expression: la livrrée d'une dame, rubans pieces d'etoffes a ses couleurs. |
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17 mins confidence:
(naked) under their coat Explanation: under their costume |
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9 hrs confidence:
wearing no underwear Explanation: Just wondered whether "naked under their clothes/coat/costume" would ever be said. It depends whether they really are wearing some sort of uniform (with a top and trousers for example) or just one item, like a coat. |
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1 day 14 hrs confidence:
under their lackey/domestic/servant livery Explanation: This is one of the original meaning of "livrée", and think it fits the context (men who are at the customers' disposal, behaving as "servants"...) - "The men who played a shifting variety of roles as footmen, waiters, and porters were, besides Lemaire, the most conspicuous representatives of the domestic staff. In a society where livery was rare, they wore splendid uniforms: blue broadcloth coats with “crimson” or “scarlet” collar and cuffs, plated buttons, and a decorative woven edging, in silver, called livery lace; red waistcoats;" (...) "Left: This carved wooden doll made in the United States, c. 1812, is apparently dressed in domestic livery, a red coat with blue collar and cuffs. " http://www.whitehousehistory.org/08/subs/images_subs/whiteho... - livrée : n. f. • v. 1290 " vêtements livrés, fournis par un grand seigneur à sa suite " ; de livrer 1° Anciennt Vêtements aux couleurs des armes d’un roi, d’un seigneur, que portaient les hommes de leur suite. 2° (fin XVe) Habits d’un modèle particulier, que portaient les domestiques masculins d’une même maison et de nos jours, uniforme analogue (dans certains hôtels). Livrée de valet, de cocher. Portier en livrée. - Vx Porter, revêtir la livrée : être, devenir domestique. Par ext. Vx La domesticité. " La livrée sort du peuple " (Balzac). http://www.lettres.ac-versailles.fr/spip.php?article210 |
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1 day 18 hrs confidence:
under their servant's [or butler's] uniform Explanation: This is the woman's version of the male fantasy of a sexy girl in a French maid's costume. Here the guy dresses up in a servant's uniform and fulfills the woman's orders (and sexual fantasies! ;-) :-). livrée, nom féminin Sens 1 Vêtement que porte les domestiques dans les grandes maisons [Couture]. Anglais livery http://www.linternaute.com/dictionnaire/fr/definition/livree... 1st person: I wish Chuck Norris would be my servant. 2nd person: Granted. Chuck Norris appears in a servent's [sic] uniform and obeys your every wish. You're very happy as a result, and treat him well. http://s12.invisionfree.com/STUDDevelopment/index.php?showto... [I am so not going into these websites ;-)] • BDSM Fetish Kink Checklist Fetish Information Exchange - checklist for those involved or interested in bdsm, sexual ... Wet suits [ ] **Servants uniform** [ ] Masks. Others, please specify: ... www.fetishexchange.org/bdsm-checklist.shtml - Cached • skaryland.com/dungeon/form.php Sexy lingerie. Uniforms. Denim. High Heels. Boots. Wet suits. **Servants uniform**. Masks. Dirty socks or shoes. Worn panties. Crossdressing. Others, please specify: ... skaryland.com/dungeon/form.php unliveried - IN BRIEF: adj. - Not wearing a servant's uniform http://www.answers.com/topic/unliveried-2 liveried - Dressed in livery, uniformed, especially a servant in a **servant's uniform** or a chauffeur in uniform. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/liveried livery - a servant's uniform, clothes, distinctive clothes or badge; the lodging provided for a person, the quarters of a portion of an army. http://members.tripod.com/Sinkest/1024chapter1/prevod17.htm The Rolling Stone Book of Comedy - photographs by Bonnie Schiffman, text by Bill Zehme (a collection of more than eighty photographs of famous comedians in celebration of the people who have kept us laughing; Eric Idle is featured in a black and white photo, sporting a **butler's uniform** (sans trousers), a cup of tea, and a dinner bell) http://www.dailyllama.com/spam/books/idle.html # LibertySuzannes Intimate Accounts ... to do that. A mixture of erotic fantasies, my life and loves. The full monty ... of light, no longer wearing his butler's uniform, dressed in a black suit, red ... journals.aol.co.uk/libertysuzanne/LibertySuzannesIntimateAccounts - 122k - Cached |
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