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clean-timbered

clean-timbered adjective: well-proportioned; symmetrical.

Adjective

clean-timbered (comparative more clean-timbered, superlative most clean-timbered)

  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]...

Forms of clean-timbered

comparativemore clean-timbered
superlativemost clean-timbered

Questions about clean-timbered

What does clean-timbered mean?
Clean-timbered means well-proportioned; symmetrical.
What part of speech is clean-timbered?
Clean-timbered is an adjective.

Words near clean-timbered in the dictionary

  1. clean-living
  2. clean-room
  3. clean-rooms
  4. clean-shaved
  5. clean-shaven
  6. clean-timbered
  7. clean-up
  8. clean-ups
  9. cleanabilities
  10. cleanability
  11. cleanable

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