ppl. a. lit. and fig.
1591–5. Spenser, Astrophel, 97. There his welwouen toyles and subtil traines He laid, the brutish nation to enwrap.
1663. South, Serm. (1727), V. 206. No such Instrument to carry on a refined, and well-woven Rebellion, as a tender Conscience, and a sturdy Heart.
1671. Milton, P. R., I. 97. Not force, but well couch’t fraud, well woven snares.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 279. When thy well-woven bands unite societies.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, XVIII. 741. Ev’ry maiden neat-attir’d In finest linen, and the youths in vests Well-woven.
1883. Whitelaw, Sophocles, Trachin., 602. This well-woven robe.
1887. Morris, Odyss., V. 58. The Nymph … of the hair well-woven.
