well-found
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of well-found
1300–50 for earlier sense “welcome”; Middle English
Example Sentences
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The apparatus can be seen in any well-found sea-going vessel; though there are still, or were until not very long ago, steam vessels without this apparatus, though crossing the English Channel with passengers.
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The Arctic was a remarkably good wreck, for she was a well-found, handsomely fitted passenger ship.
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The Bunting could not be said to be a very well-found ship, as far as the officers’ mess was concerned.
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He would reduce the well-found, well-equipped and speedy vessel to the level of the most lumbering tub in the human fleet.
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Though he had little idea how wealthy his own father had become, the great house of Commendone was a very stately, well-found place.
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