Well-set-up, Banjo. 0 ▲ languagehat.com 1 hour ago · Writing · hide · 0 comments A couple of terms new to me, with OED definitions and citations: 1) well-set-up (entry revised 2014) Now somewhat archaic. Having a good, strong, or upright figure. Cf. well-set adj. 1. 1790 Well set up, a full good looking face, rather sallow complexion, brown hair, light blue-grey eyes. World 4 September 1/2 […] 1867 Soldiers, mariners, and small-arm men, well drilled, and instructed to be upright and soldierlike in their carriage, are ‘well set up’. W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher, The Sailor’s Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms (at cited word) 1869 Very pretty damsels, and well set up. R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone vol. I. xxvii. 310 […] 1934 All the big dogs..come around. There is the big, slouchy setter, the well set-up police dog, [etc.]. Boys’ Life June 22/4 1950 Vorontzov was a well-set-up man, tall, slender, and elegant. R. T. Weaver, translation of H. Troyat, Pushkin 175 2007 The late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century idea of a ‘well set up man’ pretty much went… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.