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clean-timbered en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (archaic, idiomatic, poetic) Well-proportioned; symmetrical.
    • I thinke Hector was not so cleane timber'd. 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

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more clean-timbered Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most clean-timbered Degree=Sup lexicographic