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well-looked, a. Obs. exc. Sc.
[See well adv. 32 and looked2.]
Of good appearance, good-looking.
1664Pepys Diary 19 Aug., His lady..is a well-looked, fat, short, old Dutchwoman. 1722W. Hamilton Wallace viii. (1816) 145 Nine thousand Scots..All swinging, able, lusty, well look'd men. 1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 651/2 The Officers were very apt to discharge an old Soldier, as often as they could find a clever well-look'd young Fellow ready to list in his Stead. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Club) 154 A very genteel well-looked man. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. III. 126 A worthy excellent woman rather well looked. 1849C. Brontë Shirley vii, A well-looked, well-meant, and..well-dispositioned girl. 1897J. Willock Shetland Minister 30 (E.D.D.) Well-looked ladies. |