well-ventilatedadj.

1671 H. Stubbe Epistolary Disc. Phlebotomy 212 Whensoever the blood is well ventilated.., noxious and venenate vapours..exhale by the opened dores, and the Feaver abates.

1685 tr. T. Willis London Pract. Physick 415 Let a dry and well ventilated Air be chosen.

1755 London Mag. Mar. 119/1 How fast would North America be peopled.., if passengers could go over with that security to their lives, which well ventilated ships promise!

1794 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 221/1 It has been found necessary to contrive and provide open and well-ventilated buildings.

1818 W. Kitchiner Cook's Oracle (ed. 2) Pref. p. xliv A well-ventilated larder.

1884 Notes & Queries 12 July 36/1 If one more contribution may be admitted on this well-ventilated subject, I would beg permission to add a very early recollection of my own.

1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. iv. 168 The leaves are spread out in the sun or on shelves in well-ventilated sheds for about two hours.

1983 B. Nordenström Biologically Closed Electric Circuits xiii. 157/2 Well-ventilated portions of lung trigger their divisions of the pulmonary arteries to dilate.

2004 Guardian 27 Dec. i. 19/5 Zero-grazing..involves keeping the goats in spacious, well-ventilated shelters and bringing a carefully balanced natural diet..to them.