SHAPELINESS, SHAPELY
ADJECTIVES
► CLEAN-LIMBED shapely of limb, well-proportioned, lithe → 1461-83
► CLEAN-TIMBERED well-built, shapely of limb, well-proportioned, lithe → 1598
► MACKERLY shapely, fashionable, tolerable → 1790 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► FEATNESS elegance, shapeliness, spruceness, trimness → 1576
► MAKEDOM form, shape; esp. elegant form, shapeliness, comeliness → c1470 Sc. obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BATTLESHIP a very shapely young woman → 1973 US sl.
Lexicophilia 