weel-put-on

Updated: May 17, 2025

"There is nae mair to be spoken, sir," said his follower, "except that I met ane very honest, fair-spoken, weel-put-on gentleman, or rather burgher, as I think, that was in the whigmaleery man's back-shop; and when he learned wha I was, behold he was a kindly Scot himsell, and, what is more, a town's-bairn o' the gude town, and he behoved to compel me to take this Portugal piece, to drink, forsooth my certie, thought I, we ken better, for we will eat it and he spoke of paying your lordship a visit."

Sir Walter Scott - The Fortunes of Nigel