fair-built

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English

Adjective

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

  1. (now rare) Built beautifully; elegantly constructed.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: 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.