well-bought, ppl. a.
† a. Bought at a fair price; worth the price paid. (See well adv. 6 d.) b. Valiantly won. (Cf. dear-bought.)
| 1480 Cely Papers (Camden) 56 Sum standardes of mayll whelbhowte. 1576 Ded. Verses in Turberv. Venerie, A Booke well bought, God graunt it so be solde, For sure such Bookes are better worth than golde. 1811 Scott Don Roderick iii. xiii, For never, upon gory battle-ground, With conquest's well-bought wreath were braver victors crown'd! |