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English
Adjective
cloud-built (comparative more cloud-built, superlative most cloud-built)
- unsubstantial or imaginary.
1761, Hew Dalrymple, Woodstock. An Elegy:on the summit of a cloud-built height
1799, Analytical Review:both of them so flimsy and cloud-built, that they are unable to withstand even the soft impressions of their adverse debility.
1908, Richard Watson Gilder, Vanishing City:Of love undying and of endless praise
For beauty only—chief of all thy kind;
Immortal, even because of thy brief days;
Thou cloud-built, fairy city of the mind!
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