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How to use livery in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Livery means any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants. Example: “The airline's new livery received a mixed reaction from the press.”

Examples of livery by meaning

nounAny distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.

  • Going into the hall he saw a handsome groom, in a braided livery and a bear fur cape, holding a white fur cloak.1901 [1878], chapter 19, in Constance Garnett, transl., Anna Karenina, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 4
  • “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  • By wearing livery, the brewers publicly expressed guild association and solidarity.1996, Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

nounThe paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.

  • The airline's new livery received a mixed reaction from the press.
  • The glass fibre body has the advantage of lightness and obviates the need for painting as the material is self-coloured in the standard B.R. maroon livery.1961 October, “Car carriage by rail - at home and abroad: 1. New B.R. "covered wagons"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 594
  • The roads were jammed with matatu minibuses sporting cartoonish liveries, and trucks billowing black smoke into the dazzling African light.2024 January 13, David Pilling, “Revenge of the moderators”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN...

verbTo clothe.

  • He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.

adjectiveLike liver.

  • We are happy for the chopped mushrooms within the warm goose liver paté, for the coarse, highly seasoned wedge has a robust livery flavour the 'shrooms manage to ease.2004, Anne DesBrisay, Capital Dining: Anne DesBrisay's Guide to Ottawa Restaurants, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 19
  • A second test was similar, but we brought the internal temperature up to 130 degrees; the texture was chewy, the meat tasted livery, and had not melted.2010, Christopher Kimball, Fannie's Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook, Hachette UK, →ISBN
  • Sulfur-containing compounds (thiols, sulfides, thiazoles, sulfur-substituted furans) can interact with carbonyl compounds to produce a livery flavor.2010, Fidel Toldr, Handbook of Meat Processing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 35

adjectiveQueasy, liverish.

  • He woke feeling livery, and aware that he had overslept the morning.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 204
  • The biliousness and livery feeling will disappear and the feeling of joy and happiness will be the reward.2011, Dr Dorothy Shepherd, Homoeopathy For The First Aider, Random House, →ISBN, page 58
  • When he was young, and had taken a siesta, he had felt livery for a couple of hours afterwards, with a tongue like a chicken run2011, Alec Waugh, Fuel for the Flame, A&C Black, →ISBN

More sentences with livery

  • His hat and quiver are both of the Percy family livery colours.2012, Martin Windrow, Osprey Men-At-Arms: A Celebration, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry almain rivet
  • In the afternoon they went to a neighbouring livery stables to look for hirellings.1934, Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, Chapter 3, Section 5. From the entry hireling
  • What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC. From the entry stand
  • Another most notable change concerns rolling stock liveries.2020 June 17, David Clough, “Then and now: trains through Crewe”, in Rail, page 60. From the entry notable
  • What are homochromia and dissuasive livery, if not artistic lies?2000, Nancy Huston, Prodigy, McArthur & Company, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry homochromia
  • "Well," he said as they reached the livery, "we could go north or throw them off our trail.1999, Jon Sharpe, Trailsman 207: Chimney Rock Burial. From the entry throw off
  • Everlastings of one kind or another were used to make gaiters, shoe tops and liveries for sergeants and catchpoles.1985, Eric Kerridge, “Jerseys”, in Textile Manufactures in Early Modern England, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry everlasting
  • Already a J72 0-6-0T has been promised by a well-wisher and will be re-painted in North Eastern Railway livery.1962 August, “Society Column: Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Preservation Society”, in Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan…. From the entry well-wisher
  • In my opinion, the railways still have their heads in the sand on the subject of railway liveries.1961 June, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Four”, in Trains Illustrated, page 354. From the entry head in the sand
  • This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.1943 March and April, “G.W.R. Rolling Stock Colours”, in Railway Magazine, page 106. From the entry utility
  • His arms as there displayed are emblazoned on a bendy field of his livery colours vert, argent and gules.1904, The Genealogical Magazine, page 446. From the entry bendy
  • To rub further salt into the wound, the narrow-gauge locomotives and rolling stock received the new corporate blue livery and double arrows logo.2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Vale of Rheidol”, in RAIL, number 974, page 47. From the entry rub salt in the wound
  • Also unavailable offline: buying new cars, viewing your garage, editing car liveries, and even the "taking photos of fancy cars in exotic scenery" mode.2017 October 17, Jonathan M. Gitlin, “Gran Turismo Sport is extremely limited in offline mode”, in Ars Technica. From the entry mode
  • The 4-6-4 tank engines were not finished in the usual livery, as the boiler lagging clothing plates were of unpainted planished steel.1948 September and October, “The Why and The Wherefore: Locomotive Livery, G.S.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 348. From the entry planished
  • The new livery features the native mountain hare and its predator the eagle, reflecting the wildlife of the mountain most known for their speed and agility.2023 April 5, “News in pictures: New livery adorns Cairngorm funicular”, in RAIL, number 980, page 28. From the entry mountain hare
  • But with a large Irish family to keep in potatoes and a livery of bodyguards that would have made Joseph Stalin look paranoid, he needed the cashola.2004, Mimi Hare, Clare Naylor, The second assistant: a tale from the bottom of the Hollywood ladder, page 201. From the entry cashola
  • You might give these people a badge or some livery for their boat and you can give them a discount on the rego of their boat.2003, Australian Senate, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 18057. From the entry rego
  • The servants in the hall tonight are whitely-wigged black slaves in livery of a certain grade of satin and refinement of lace,– black Major-domos and black Soubrettes.1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon. From the entry soubrette
  • The bodysides have a gentle tumblehome, which gives the machine impressive solidarity of appearance, well set off by the new B.R. standard livery of light-skirted green.1961 August, “The English Electric Type 5 3,300 h.p. "Deltic" diesels for British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 468. From the entry tumblehome
  • Other opinions, as on the smartness of well-maintained black engine liveries, are as sound as they are well stated, and justice is done to some Betjemanesque aspects of railway Victoriana.1961 August, “New reading on railways: British Steam Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page vii. From the entry Betjemanesque

Meaning of livery

  1. noun Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
  2. noun The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
  3. noun The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.

Full definition of livery

Questions about livery in a sentence

How do you use livery in a sentence?
Livery is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “The airline's new livery received a mixed reaction from the press.”
What is a short sentence with livery?
“Another most notable change concerns rolling stock liveries.”
What does livery mean?
Livery means any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.

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