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well-favoured

British  

adjective

  1. having good features; good-looking

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She suggested a well-favoured squirrel among a family of moles.

From Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

But Cardinal's hats, Bishop's mitres, and decorations were falling down upon bleating sheep, braying asses, and other despised creatures; whilst well-favoured men, in tattered garments, looked up in vain for the slightest favour.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

Hawke loomed larger on his own horizon, the more particularly because the analyst was a young woman and well-favoured.

From A Romance of Wastdale by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

He was a well-favoured young man, with an honest, sun-bronzed face.

From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold

Formerly the very stones of the court had breathed of life, and sunshine, and youth; formerly that poor dog had been bright and well-favoured, and as happy as are all things that are loved.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

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