英和和英

形容詞

well-covered (comparative more well-covered, superlative most well-covered)

1. 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. In Two Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, OCLC 83344188:

     He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.

   • 1865 May 15 – 1866 January 1, Anthony Trollope, “Taking Possession”, in The Belton Estate. […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published December 1865 (indicated as 1866), OCLC 1041069398, page 239:

     How are you to bid a starving man to wait when you put him down at a well-covered board?

2. (chiefly Britain, of a person, euphemistic) Fat, corpulent, full-figured.
   • 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 26, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 2108290:

     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.