Adjective

(en adjective)

Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}

Adjective

(en-adj)

(dated, of a person) Pleasing or attractive to the eye.

* South

He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young.

* Milton

Not once perceive their foul disfigurement / But boast themselves more comely than before.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Chapter IX

The chief's name was To-jo, and his household consisted of seven females and himself. These women were much more comely , or rather less hideous than those of Tsa's people; one of them, even, was almost pretty, being less hairy and having a rather nice skin, with high coloring.

(archaic) Suitable or becoming; proper; agreeable.

* Shakespeare

This is a happier and more comely time / Than when these fellows ran about the streets, / Crying confusion.

* Bible, Psalms cxlvii. 1

It is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely .