Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: livery
IPA transcription: [l'ɪvɚi]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bilious, liverish, livery
    Meaning: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
Usage examples
  • Late in the afternoon of the next day, behind a livery horse, two men were covering the roadway between town and the Hallam place.
  • There were chandeliers hung from the ceiling, I remember, many servants in livery, gaming-tables where the men played with piles of gold, and a staircase down which the guests made their entrance.
  • Basilio, in a livery of white linen and a red sash, had squatted for a moment behind his heels to unstrap the heavy, blunt spurs in the patio; and then the Senor Administrator would go up the staircase into the gallery.
  • The attendant, who in the gorgeous Estrato livery was slowly propelling the chair, pulled up rather suddenly, as, turning into one of the alley-ways which led back to the palace he came in sight of the figure of a woman.
  • I have it. Vienna, a carriage with footmen in red livery, a noble presence, a crowd of wits--poets, artists, politicians--pressing eagerly round the landau." That was my mental picture as I sat and confronted you: I understand it all now; this is Lady Georgina Fawley!'