well-favoured
Adjective

well-favoured

  1. (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; […]
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Daniel 1:4 ↗:
      Children in whom was no blemish, but well fauoured, and skilfull in all wisedome, and cunning in knowledge, and vnderstanding science, […]
    • 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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