well-ˈcovered, ppl. a.
a. In gen. use; b. spec. thickly covered with flesh; hence in colloq. use of a person: plump, corpulent; cf. well-upholstered ppl. a.
| 1697 Walsh Dryden's Virgil Life **2 In other Writers there is often well cover'd Ignorance; in Virgil, conceal'd Learning. 1791 Boswell Johnson an. 1776 (1904) II. 46 My worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men, than at any other. 1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 121 They are then cooked without water, in a well-covered vessel. a 1865 Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. xxxiii, Till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table. 1884 Nonconf. & Indep. 9 May 445/3 Thrusting his elbow into the well-covered ribs of Mr. W. H. Smith. 1943 D. Welch Maiden Voyage xvii. 136 A mild, well⁓covered person, with crinkly hair and rather piggy eyes. 1972 ‘E. Ferrars’ Breath of Suspicion i. 7 He was rosy, bland and very well-covered. |