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Definition of "well-carriaged" [well-carriaged]

  • Of good carriage or deportment; well-mannered.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "well-carriaged" in a sentence
  • "When I heard her dismiss the footman, I stepped up to him and asked him, what little lady that was? and held a little chat with him about what a pretty child it was with her, and how genteel and well-carriaged the lady, the eldest, would be: how womanish, and how grave; and the fool of a fellow told me presently who she was; that she was Sir Thomas"
  • "We had a venison pasty, and other good plain and handsome dishes; the mistress of the house a pretty, well-carriaged woman, and a fine hand she hath; and her maid a pretty brown lass."
  • "But how can one be certain that, as Burchfield writes, well-carriaged is a euphemism for having large breasts, let him do just what he pleased for succumb to a seducer, and so on?"