单词 | well-drawn |
释义 | well(-)drawn, ppl. a. 1. Skilfully delineated. Also of the human form: Well modelled or proportioned.
1679C. Nesse Antichrist Ded., As a dark soil in a well drawn picture. 1709Shaftesbury Moralists i. iii. 30 Not captivated by the Lineaments of a fair Face, or the well-drawn Proportions of a human Body. 1855Kingsley Glaucus 162 Two little ‘Popular’ Histories..furnished..with well-drawn and coloured plates. 2. Strongly stretched, straightened out, etc.
1725Pope Odyss. viii. 262 In fighting fields as far the spear I throw, As flies an arrow from the well-drawn bow. 1864Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XXV. 363 A thick coat of well-drawn dry wheat-straw is then laid over them [sc. the potatoes]. |

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