Well-covered
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Well-covered is an adjective meaning Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.
Meaning
Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.
More Meanings
- (chiefly British, of a person, euphemistic) Fat, corpulent, full-figured.
Example Sentences
How are you to bid a starving man to wait when you put him down at a well-covered board?
"She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered."
He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.
The sculptor Botero—influenced perhaps by Maillol’s love of well covered women—created in 1981 an overweight, stumpy couple.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include well-served, furnished, well-found, well-furnished, well-appointed, well-equipped.
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