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well(-)aired, ppl. a.
1. Thoroughly ventilated; favoured with good air.
1818Scott Hrt. Midl. Note 3 The situation in the centre of the High Street rendered it [the Tolbooth] so particularly well-aired, that when the plague laid waste the city in 1645, it affected none within these melancholy precincts. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. v. 62 The bed-room of a patient labouring under fever should be well-aired. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. i. i. 47 Well-aired locality.
2. Damp-freed by exposure to air or heat.
1789H. Newdigate Let. 1 July in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels of Cheverel Manor (1898) vi. 89, I came home to a well-air'd Comfortable Bed. 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton xxxi, She..went on to assure Mary the bed was well aired. |