[f. LIVERY sb. + -ED2.] Dressed in, furnished with, or wearing a livery.

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1634.  Milton, Comus, 455. A thousand liveried Angels lacky her.

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1641.  Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 7. He had 116 servants in liveries, every one liveried in green satin doublets.

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1738.  Pope, Epil. Sat., I. 155. Our Youth, all livery’d o’er with foreign Gold, Before her dance: behind her crawl the Old.

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1798.  Wordsw., Simon Lee, 28. Old Simon to the world is left In liveried poverty.

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1798.  Jane Austen, Northang. Abb. (1833), II. v. 126. A fashionable chaise and four, postilions handsomely liveried.

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1837.  Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., III. App. 327. Aristocratic girls … who grace a ball-room, or loll in a liveried carriage.

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1838.  Dickens, Nich. Nick., x. A liveried footman opened the door.

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  fig.  a. 1639.  Wotton, Descript. Spring, 24, in Reliq. (1651), 524. All look’t gay, all full of Chear, To welcome the New-liveri’d yeare.

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1750.  C. Smart, in Student, I. 225. The livery’d clouds shall on thee wait.

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