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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liveried
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A pearl necklace had broken and two liveried servants scrabbled on hands and knees to retrieve the jewels.
▪ An ostler took the cavalryman's horse while a liveried footman relieved him of his helmet and cumbersome sword.
▪ And the chauffeur was a liveried war veteran with a steel face and leather hands.
▪ Jean handed his cloak to the liveried servant, who bowed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liveried

Liveried \Liv"er*ied\, a. Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3.

The liveried servants wait.
--Parnell.

Wiktionary
liveried

a. Dressed in livery, uniformed, especially a servant in a servant's uniform or a chauffeur in uniform.

WordNet
liveried

adj. wearing livery; "liveried footmen stood on the palace steps" [ant: unliveried]

Usage examples of "liveried".

Cardinal Bernis, who was by, advised her that the first time she took the girls to the theatre she had better go in person, and tell the superioress that she would always send her carriage and liveried servants to fetch them.

I asked his two liveried servants who were standing by me why they had not helped their master.

Tinker asserted his, with the result that his bolt into the Salles de Jeu and his difficult extrication from them by the brawny, but liveried officials was fast becoming one of the events of the day.

Chamberlain and I went in a kuruma hurried along by three liveried coolies, through the three miles of crowded streets which lie between the Legation and Asakusa, once a village, but now incorporated with this monster city, to the broad street leading to the Adzuma Bridge over the Sumida river, one of the few stone bridges in Tokiyo, which connects east Tokiyo, an uninteresting region, containing many canals, storehouses, timber-yards, and inferior yashikis, with the rest of the city.

Within the space of minutes, she glimpsed beggars, peasant labourers, tradesmen and shopkeepers, market women and grisettes, students, liveried servants and footmen, assorted soberly clad bourgeois, sailors, uniformed gendarmes, Royal Guardsmen and shabbily bedizened females who could only have been prostitutes, mingling freely in the streets.

Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black, the sun gleaming on the strong lineaments of his brow arching disdainfully as a decrepit horse and buggy bearing an aging woman and a handsome intense young man standing to snap his whip imperiously came close for an exchange of unheard words to be pointed scornfully on their way, glimpsed from behind a curtain by a ravishingly beautiful young woman in negligee in their retreat back down the drive.

Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black there he is!

Abundant silver on refectory table, liveried menservants behind each chair, others to bring in huge quantities of meats and borscht and beets and pies and jugs of iced vodka, champagne and French wines and sorbets.

In addition to two torchbearers and two attendants, there were four liveried soldiers following him and the cheerfully chattering Prince.

Giles, a great power in Turin, and a kind of protecting deity to all actresses, summoned me to her presence by a liveried footman.

More than five hundred matriarchal clans dwelled in the city, filling broad piazzas and clamoring market avenues with contingents of finely dressed, elaborately coiffed, magnificently uniformed clones, their burdens carried on well-oiled carts or the backs of patient lugars in liveried tunics.

Cardinal Bernis, who was by, advised her that the first time she took the girls to the theatre she had better go in person, and tell the superioress that she would always send her carriage and liveried servants to fetch them.

Her confusion deepened when a liveried footman materialised at her side to hand her a folded note.

I asked his two liveried servants who were standing by me why they had not helped their master.

A liveried servant carrying a bolt of cloth blinked at her, then bowed low before scurrying off.