Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of livery
- not comparableDressed in livery, uniformed, especially of a servant or a chauffeur.
Essentially, it’s the software equivalent of one of those liveried servants who takes your visiting card when you arrive at a posh do and announces to the gathering, ‘Sir Frederick and Lady Chomeley Masterson-Smyhthe’.
1996, Michael Hewitt, “Chat” (chapter 5), in The Official AOL UK for Windows® Membership Kit and Tour Guide, London: International Thomson Publishing, →ISBN, page 113
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivewearing livery
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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liveried. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/liveried
“liveried.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/liveried. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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