clean-timbered

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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
  I thinke Hector was not so cleane timber'd.

References

“clean-timbered”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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