The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word LIVERY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result LIVERY
- Large, one extremely distinctive dress
- Pick up your foul uniform!
- Everyman’s wearing, on and off, clergy’s distinctive garb
- These London companies providing current to railway
- Irritable in uniform
- Electrified track is uniform
- Light infantry put on sort of light uniform
- Historian accepting queen’s badge
- Left one extremely out of sorts
- Uniform worn for looking after horses?
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The straight part
We know that "Uniform/looking after horses" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case uniform/looking after horses = livery.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LIVERY mean?
LIVERY noun- Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
- The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
- The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
- A taxicab or limousine.
- The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
- The writ by which property is obtained.
- The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
- A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
- An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
- Release from wardship; deliverance.
- A low grade of wool.
- Outward markings, fittings or appearance
- To clothe.
- Like liver.
- Queasy, liverish.