- a variation of well-favored.
well-favoured
Britishadjective
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He came up the rude steps hastily, a well-favoured young man of her own world, and almost her own age, which she felt was in some ways unfortunate then.
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
He was, as she had naturally noticed, a well-favoured man, and the flannels and straw hat he wore were becoming to him.
From The Greater Power by W. Herbert Dunton
He was a tall, well-favoured man, slender, and lithe in movement, with dark eyes and hair, and a slightly sallow face that suggested that he was from the South.
From The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Harold Bindloss
He was a well-favoured young man, with an honest, sun-bronzed face.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
He was tall and well-favoured, and he moved with a jaunty and yet not ungraceful swing; but it almost seemed to her that this was merely the result of an empty self-sufficiency.
From Hawtrey's Deputy by Cyrus Cuneo
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