Adjective

(en adjective)

Made smooth or shiny by polishing.

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, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,

Refined, elegant.

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She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished , pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

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 .