well-favoured
Adjective
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Adjective
well-favoured
- (dated) Good-looking or pleasing to the eye; handsome.
- Antonyms: ill-favored
- a. 1631, John Donne, Satire I:
- Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, & cryes, Do you see
Yonder well favoured youth? Which? Oh, 'tis hee
That dances so divinely; […]
- 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 36.”, in Master Humphrey's Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC ↗, page 143 ↗:
- ‘‘The name is entered on the list as a woman,’’ replied the secretary. ‘‘I think she is the tall spare female of whom you spoke just now, my lord, as not being well-favoured, who sometimes comes to hear the speeches—along with Tappertit and Mrs Varden.’’
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