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well-covered en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.
   • He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table. 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 33, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
   • How are you to bid a starving man to wait when you put him down at a well-covered board? 1865 May 15 – 1866 January 1, Anthony Trollope, “Taking Possession”, in The Belton Estate. […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published December 1865 (indicated as 1866), →OCLC, page 239:
2. (UK, euphemistic, of a person) Fat, corpulent, full-figured.
   • "She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered." 1921, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, part 2, ch. 11:
   • The sculptor Botero—influenced perhaps by Maillol’s love of well covered women—created in 1981 an overweight, stumpy couple. 2003 March 20, Thomas Stuttaford, “Eat less and walk more to keep diabetes at bay”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 24 Jun 2008:
   • 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. 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 26, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

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Deriveds

well-coveredness