well-favored

American  

[wel-fey-verd] / ˈwɛlˈfeɪ vərd /

especially British, well-favoured

adjective

1. of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.

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Etymology

Origin of well-favored

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425

Example Sentences

In “Rodin,” the Eifman Ballet’s vigorous work about the well-favored artist, imagined passions are channeled into two hours of entwining bodies and sweat that felt like the Olympics of dance.

From Washington Post

Rachel, the youngest, was “beautiful and well-favored;” Leah, the elder, was “blear-eyed.”

From Project Gutenberg

And, behold, seven other cows came up after them, lean and ill favored; and the lean and ill-favored cows did eat up the fat and well-favored cows.

From Project Gutenberg

In person he was a tall, well-favored man, in the prime of life, with hair just beginning to be flecked with gray.

From Project Gutenberg

If anything further were needed to indicate the probability of this, there was a well-favored and very smartly-dressed man standing beside the wagon, and Jordan's face grew suddenly hard as he looked at him.

From Project Gutenberg