good-looker
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of good-looker
1890–95, good-look(ing) or good look(s) + -er 1
Example Sentences
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But Manager Johnson's best-selling good-looker dates from the regime of his predecessor, Giulio Gatti-Casazza.
From Time Magazine Archive
“A good-looker like Loma ought’n to wear black all the time,” Grandpa interrupted.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Any good-looker, with an easy conscience, will do.
From Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune by Alonzo Kimball
At any rate a good-looker adds "class" to the personnel.
From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous
He was a good-looker, with sort of curly brown hair, nice eyes, a romantic nose, and cheeks like a pair of twenty-four-dollar American Beauties, and his pictures looked fine and dandy in the papers.
From The New Boy at Hilltop by Ralph Henry Barbour
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