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English
Adjective
clean-timbered (comparative more clean-timbered, superlative most clean-timbered)
- (archaic, idiomatic, poetic) Well-propotioned; symmetrical.
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I thinke Hector was not so cleane timber'd.
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