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Shapely

//ˈʃeɪpli// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a pleasing shape, pleasant to look at.

    "The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English schaply, schappely (“well-shaped, beautiful, attractive”), perhaps from Old English *ġesċeaplīċ (“according to design, proper, fit”) (suggested by Old English ġesċeaplīċe (“properly, fitting, well”)), equivalent to shape + -ly.

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