Meanings
adjectiveclean-timbered (comparative more clean-timbered, superlative most clean-timbered)
comparative more clean-timbered · superlative most clean-timbered
- archaicidiomaticpoeticWell-proportioned; symmetrical.
I thinke Hector was not so cleane timber'd.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]
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