well-covered

See also: well covered

English

Alternative forms

well covered

Adjective

well-covered (comparative more well-covered, superlative most well-covered)

Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.
- 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, ch. 33:
  He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.
- 1866, Anthony Trollope, The Belton Estate, ch. 31:
  How are you to bid a starving man to wait when you put him down at a well-covered board?
(chiefly Britain, of a person, euphemistic) Fat, corpulent, full-figured.
- 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, ch. 26:
  That simple dancing of well-covered matrons, laying aside for an hour the cares of house and dairy, remembering but not affecting youth, not jealous but proud of the young maidens by their side […] it would be a pleasant variety to see all that sometimes.
- 1921, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, part 2, ch. 11:
  "She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered."
- 2003, Thomas Stuttaford, "Eat less and walk more to keep diabetes at bay," Times Online (UK), 20 Mar. (retrieved 24 June 2008):
  The sculptor Botero—influenced perhaps by Maillol’s love of well covered women—created in 1981 an overweight, stumpy couple.

单词	well-covered
释义	well-covered See also: well covered English Alternative forms well covered Adjective well-covered (comparative more well-covered, superlative most well-covered) Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served. 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, ch. 33: He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table. 1866, Anthony Trollope, The Belton Estate, ch. 31: How are you to bid a starving man to wait when you put him down at a well-covered board? (chiefly Britain, of a person, euphemistic) Fat, corpulent, full-figured. 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, ch. 26: That simple dancing of well-covered matrons, laying aside for an hour the cares of house and dairy, remembering but not affecting youth, not jealous but proud of the young maidens by their side […] it would be a pleasant variety to see all that sometimes. 1921, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, part 2, ch. 11: "She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered." 2003, Thomas Stuttaford, "Eat less and walk more to keep diabetes at bay," Times Online (UK), 20 Mar. (retrieved 24 June 2008): The sculptor Botero—influenced perhaps by Maillol’s love of well covered women—created in 1981 an overweight, stumpy couple.
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