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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
well-preserved
adjective
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▪ A substantial, well-preserved Iron Age settlement with two encircling ramparts and supplementary earthworks.
▪ Among his discoveries were well-preserved burials of people of large stature with long hair.
▪ Immediately inside the entrance were three well-preserved paintings.
▪ In its present state of suspended animation, however, H-4 may look forward to a well-preserved life of undetermined longevity.
▪ Microscopical details are not so well-preserved, and the fossil is, of course, only a fragment of a larger plant.
▪ Sections have been cut through well-preserved coral in limestone.
▪ The nails of the well-preserved hands were all in place.
▪ These specimens are well-preserved in a clay matrix, some of which adheres to one of the specimens.
Wiktionary
well-preserved

a. 1 (context of an older person English) healthy and ageing gracefully 2 (of an old, possibly ancient, object) in good condition considering its age. alt. 1 (context of an older person English) healthy and ageing gracefully 2 (of an old, possibly ancient, object) in good condition considering its age.

WordNet
well-preserved

adj. used of older persons who are healthy

Usage examples of "well-preserved".

There were also courtyards, kivas, and well-preserved ladders that had once allowed the Anasazi to climb easily from one level of the city to another.

A well-preserved older man whose age was difficult to determine even with close study, he had access to vigorous antiaging treatments and availed himself of cellular chelation techniques that kept him limber and healthy.

Now, many facelifts and body remodelings later, he looked more like a moderately well-preserved dummy.

The cadavers well-preserved face wrenched with pain, the sword fell from a hand that reached instinctively at its torn vitals.

It is never going to win any beauty contests, but it has some likeable features - an old-fashioned littlecinema called La Scala, a well-preserved market arcade, a large and adorably over-the-top nineteenth-century sandstone castle on a hill, some splendid river walks.

Torn by the wave from their graves in some long-forgotten burial ground, the amazingly well-preserved bodies of the dead stared sightlessly at the horrified sailors, who were certain they were being cursed by creatures of the devil.

So she accepted the cannister Jess tipped into her hand, worked the tape free with the help of her pocket knife, and pulled out a much-folded and rolled but well-preserved piece of paper, printed on both sides in various fonts and then covered with clear packing tape in crude lamination.

After discovering that the interior walls were covered with remarkably well-preserved painted reliefs, he had insisted on erecting a temporary roof over the chamber.

He was a remarkedly well-preserved man and looked much younger than his years.

He had a round face, as red and wrinkled as a well-preserved winter apple, and he bobbed up and down in his chair, waving, until the young man next to him put a restraining hand on his arm.