fair-built
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Adjective[edit]
fair-built (comparative more fair-built, superlative most fair-built)
- (now rare) Built beautifully; elegantly constructed.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, II.2.4:
- It will laxare animos, refresh the soul of man, to see fair-built cities, streets, theatres, temples, obelisks, etc.