[ adj ] having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape <adj.all> a slim waist and shapely legs
Shapely \Shape"ly\, a. [Compar. {Shapelier}; superl. {Shapeliest}.] 1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. --T. Warton.
Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. --Pope.
Where the shapely column stood. --Couper.
2. Fit; suitable. [Obs.]
Shaply for to be an alderman. --Chaucer.
Even trouser suits had daringly low-cut jackets, the bosom more evident than the shapely shoulders, jacket lapels often cut way down in this softly sexy collection to make way for the prominent female curves.
But concerns for a shapely bosom were deflated to an all-time low after 1968, when militant women's libbers symbolically burned their bras or stopped wearing them.
Though he made it shapely and well-balanced, a party-piece was just what it failed to sound like; its 'cheap thrills' (very effectively designed by the composer) were rendered tasteful to a fault.
Her lines are disappointingly dull but there's great pleasure in hearing that voice come out of a shapely, skinny body that looks as though it's been dipped in gold lame from head to toe.
Ellis's songs are all so shapely, singable, grateful in their vocal lines, and they beam with freshness and innocence.