proportioned

[ pruh-pawr-shuhnd, -pohr- ]

adjective

Origin of proportioned

First recorded in 1350–1400, proportioned is from the Middle English word proporcioned.See proportion, -ed²

His cropped leather jackets with their dolman sleeves were perfectly proportioned over his attenuated, back-slit skirts.
Paris Fall 2012 Fashion Week: Are Designers Bashing Women? | Robin Givhan | March 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
The deftness of Smith's drafts(wo)manship can often be overlooked in her E.T.-proportioned figures.
A Woman in Full | Chloe Malle | February 18, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
Xtra Insight: Former Clinton Speechwriter Ted Widmer on Obama's Biblically-proportioned Success.
Photo Album: Obama's Trip to the Mideast and Europe | The Daily Beast | June 3, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
“This house must have been the hotel of some distinguished family, Baron; it is nobly proportioned,” said David Arden.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Beneath its far-flung branches a syce was sitting in front of a finely-proportioned and unusually big Arab horse.
The Red Year | Louis Tracy

We had a large salle in the Hotel Bremen which was admirably proportioned, and a new grand piano from Berlin.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy Fay
The movable bridge in its closed position must be proportioned like a fixed bridge, but it has also other conditions to fulfil.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 | Various
The camel commonly lives forty or fifty years, which term of life is proportioned to the time of its growth.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VIII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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