well bred

1. Of good breeding; refined in manners; polite, cultivated. "Say what strange motive, Godde ! could compel A well - bred Lord t' a ault a gentle Belle?" Pope: Rape of the Lock, i. 8. 2. Of good breed, stock, or race; well-born. Applied especially to horses, and other domestic animals, which have descended from a race of ancestors that have through several generations po e ed in a high degree the properties which it is the great object of the breeder to attain.