Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a good figure.
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Examples
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"Ah, but when will we get the chance to try, with the great nor-teamericano conquering all the good-bodied women in the city?"
Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994
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The Dandie Dinmont had the most delightful eyes imaginable, and was a good-bodied dog, faulty only in tail and in a tendency to be leggy.
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Lauren bought a bottle of the Piancoleto, which I would describe as a good-bodied, full, dry and persistent wine.
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a holiday and my eye very sore, and myself having had very little sleep for a good while till nine o'clock, and so up, and so saw all my family up, and my father and sister, who is a pretty good-bodied woman, and not over thicke, as I thought she would have been, but full of freckles, and not handsome in face.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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a good while till nine o'clock, and so up, and so saw all my family up, and my father and sister, who is a pretty good-bodied woman, and not over thicke, as I thought she would have been, but full of freckles, and not handsome in face.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 43: May/June 1666 Samuel Pepys 1668
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a holiday and my eye very sore, and myself having had very little sleep for a good while till nine o'clock, and so up, and so saw all my family up, and my father and sister, who is a pretty good-bodied woman, and not over thicke, as I thought she would have been, but full of freckles, and not handsome in face.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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