a. Having good features. Formerly also in wider sense: Well formed or shaped.
c. 1500. Three Kings Sons, 111. And many tyme he wold … thinke yn his mynde that they were passing wele fetured and goodly folkes.
1590. Tarlton’s News out of Purg., 11. A bare faced youth, well featured, of a liuely countenance.
c. 1600. Ignoto, in I. D. & C. M., Epigr. (? 1830), D 5 b. Wel featurde lasse, Thou knowest I loue the deere.
a. 1618. J. Davies (Heref.), Wits Pilgr., etc. (Grosart), 27/2. Well featur’d Flesh too base a Subiect is For Sou’raign Loues diuine, ay-blest, imbrace.
1688. Lond. Gaz., No. 2354/8. An Indian Black, about 18 years of Age, well featur’d.
1787. Burns, Song, ‘There’s a Youth,’ 10. Weel-featur’d, weel-tocher’d, weel mounted and braw.
1860. Whyte-Melville, Mkt. Harb., v. Who, to do him justice, was a gentleman-like, well-featured fellow enough.
1874. Motley, John Barnev., II. xvii. 226. A tall,… well-featured, mild, gentlemanlike man.
