Meaning of well-covered | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.
2. Fat, corpulent, full-figured.
   British, euphemistic

Examples

“He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.”

“How are you to bid a starving man to wait when you put him down at a well-covered board?”

“That simple dancing of well-covered matrons, laying aside for an hour the cares of house and dairy, remembering but not affecting youth, not jealous but proud of the young maidens by their side […] it would be a pleasant variety to see all that sometimes.”

“"She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered."”

“The sculptor Botero—influenced perhaps by Maillol’s love of well covered women—created in 1981 an overweight, stumpy couple.”

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