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well-favoured

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well-fa⋅vored

[wel-fey-verd]
–adjective
of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
Also, especially British, well-favoured.


Origin:
1375–1425; late ME
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well-favoured

adjective
pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman [syn: fine-looking
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