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well-ˈfavoured, a.
(α) Handsome or attractive in appearance, good-looking.
1420–22Lydg. Thebes i. 754 He was a semly knyght, Wel fauoured in euery mannys sight. c1430― Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 40 Your weel favoured face. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xiv. ii, Thy wel faverde and moost fayre lady. 1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) B iij b, If one be well fauourder than another, will ye punishe him bicause ye looke for an equalitie of all things? 1599Shakes. Much Ado iii. iii. 15. 1633 C. Farewell E.-India Colation 15 A man of a liuely countenance and well fauored. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. (1900) 220 The Boy was in very mean Cloaths, but of a very fresh and well-favoured Countenance. 1787Burns Song, There's a Youth 3 He's bonie and braw, weel-favour'd withal. 1848Akerman Anc. & Mod. Coins v. 89 A well-fed and well-favoured man. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. vi, She was a tall, upright, well-favoured woman, though severe of countenance.
(β) in Sc. form (well or weel) faird, well faur'd, well far'd, well far't, well faurt, etc.
1535Lyndesay Satyre 4333 Now, wallie fall that weill fairde mow! 15..in Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Club) 399 A weilfaird may. 1719D'Urfey Pills III. 307 There I met with a welfar'd Lass. 1781Burns ‘On Cessnock banks’ i. (var.) The graces of her weel-faur'd face. 1814Scott Wav. xlii, He's vera weel,..but no naithing so well-far'd as your colonel. 1830A. Picken Dominie's Legacy III. 32 The delinquent and his wife want to get their own infamous conduct shifted now over upon that well fard boy. 1894Crockett Raiders xxiii. 277 I'll never deny that in the days o' yer youth ye war a weel-faured lass.
b. of an animal, a locality, a plant.
1539Bible (Great) Gen. xli. 4 The euyll fauored & leane flesshed kyne did eate vp the seuen welfauored & fatt kyne. 1854S. Thomson Wild Flowers 112 The purple goat's⁓beard,..the corn blue-bottle are well-favoured plants. 1861W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 403 This ill-named and not very well-favoured spot formed the nucleus of Abbotsford.
†c. transf. (cf. well-favouredly b).
1746Francis tr. Hor., Sat. i. v. 34 [He] bangs the mule at a well-favor'd rate. |