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well-built, ppl. a.
1. Of a house, town, ship, nest, etc.
c1611Chapman Iliad vi. 14 Axilus, that did dwell In faire Arisbas well-built towres. 1615― Odyss. xiii. 152 The well-built Ships. 1708J. Philips Cyder i. 196 The bastion of a well-built city. 1822Shelley ‘When the Lamp’ 18 When hearts have once mingled, Love first leaves the well-built nest. 1858W. Ellis Madagascar xii. 329 The houses were all well-built, with clean swept court yards around them. 1872Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 239 On arriving at the well-built cairn, the prospect is magnificent.
2. transf. and fig. (e.g. of a person or animal, a suit of clothes, a poem).
1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xv. 292 This is well-built consolation which reaches the heart. 1706[see built ppl. a. 2]. 1707Prior Sat. Poets 125 The Author then, whose daring hopes would strive With well-built Verse to keep his Fame alive. 1749Fielding Tom Jones i. x, This Gentleman..was of a middle Size, and what is called well built. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 269 His tall, well-built figure was shown off to advantage by his magnificent dress. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet i. iii, She was a strong, well-built woman, of about six or seven and twenty. 1888‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Childr. vii, He was wearing a remarkably well⁓built suit of rough yellowish stuff.
Hence well-ˈbuiltness. nonce-wd.
1899H. Wright Depopulation 2 One saw the city standing out in all its strength of substantial well-builtness. |