ppl. a. Having a good shape, form or figure.
1340–70. Alisaunder, 186. Schuft shulders aright, well ischaped armes.
c. 1532. Du Wes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 917. The man is well shaped.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, X. 372. Steeds More white then snow, huge, and well shap’t.
1654. Ligon, Barbados, 72. This tree … is well shap’d, her body straight, her branches well proportion’d.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 53, ¶ 8. A delicate well-shaped Arm held a Fan over her Face.
1725. Bradley’s Family Dict., s.v. Pears, A very large wellshaped Pear.
1831. G. P. R. James, Phil. Augustus, xxxix. A … small, well-shaped mouth.
1889. J. B. Bury, Hist. Later Rom. Emp., I. 173. He was ‘of middle height, of manly condition, well shaped, so that his body was neither too weak nor too weighty.
