Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly:
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That is one handsome tree you've got there.
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I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.
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1661–1669 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, edited by Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
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At the farther end of this great lamp-lit apartment was another doorway closed in with heavy Oriental-looking curtains, quite unlike those that hung before the doors of our own rooms, and here stood two particularly handsome girl mutes, their heads bowed upon their bosoms and their hands crossed in an attitude of humble submission.
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1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
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On the opposite side of the street, on the corner, is the city hall, a very handsome building of brick and stone.
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1916, On H.R. 4683, site for post-office building at Chicago, Ill, page 117:
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The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
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1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories[1], Project Gutenberg, →ISBN, page 71:
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Often, human mortals describe their visits to the Tuatha's [places] in similar terms: they were great bright places, occupied by exceedingly handsome men and women, that sported wonderful crystal chairs, inexhaustible supplies of mead or ale ...
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2006, Richard Leviton, The Gods in Their Cities, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 44: