Meanings
adjectivefair-built (comparative more fair-built, superlative most fair-built)
comparative more fair-built · superlative most fair-built
- archaicBuilt beautifully; elegantly constructed.
It will laxare animos, refresh the soul of man, to see fair-built cities, streets, theatres, temples, obelisks, etc.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 4
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