Well-covered

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.

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

  2. 2
    Fat, corpulent, full-figured. British, euphemistic

    "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."

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

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