fair-built

English

Adjective

fair-built (comparative more fair-built, superlative most fair-built)

  1. (now rare) Built beautifully; elegantly constructed.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:
      , II.2.4:
      It will laxare animos, refresh the soul of man, to see fair-built cities, streets, theatres, temples, obelisks, etc.
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