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well-covered (comparative more well-covered, superlative most well-covered)
- Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.
1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 33, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., , published 1866, →OCLC:He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.
- (chiefly British, of a person, euphemistic) Fat, corpulent, full-figured.
1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 26, in Adam Bede , volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC: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.
1921, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, part 2, ch. 11:"She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered."
2003 March 20, Thomas Stuttaford, “Eat less and walk more to keep diabetes at bay”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 24 June 2008:The sculptor Botero—influenced perhaps by Maillol’s love of well covered women—created in 1981 an overweight, stumpy couple.
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