Well-covered
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Adjective
- 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 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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More examples"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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