1505 F. Marsin et al. Rep. Queen of Naples (modernized text) in J. Gairdner Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858) 233 The said queen is like for to be of a sweet savour and well eyred.

1578 W. Darell Short Disc. Life Seruingmen sig. C.iij When thou comest at night to thy Inne, haue care of thy maister, that his lodging may in any wise be sweete and cleanly, his sheetes white washed, and verie well ayred.

1650 H. Brooke Υγιεινη 213 Care is to be taken that thou beest rubbed well with warm clothes, and shifted with fresh and well aired Linning.

1695 J. Pechey Store-house Physical Pract. cxxvi. 511 You are to fold a well aired Sheet four double, and lay it under the Patient.

1765 W. Cole Let. 3 Mar. in H. Walpole Corr. (1937) I. 86 Here is nothing to tempt you to such a retreat but what I have mentioned, a well-aired bed, warm fires, no company and a most hearty welcome.

1789 H. 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.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. xiv. 184 She..went on to assure Mary the bed was well aired.

1903 J. M. Falkner Nebuly Coat xvi. 247 He would expect her to be methodic, to see that eggs were fresh, and beds well aired.

1950 Life 13 Feb. 75/3 (advt.) At sundown, they neatly replaced their well-aired bedding.

2008 C. McCullough Independence Miss Mary Bennet (2009) 91 She slept comfortably—if not for long enough—in a clean feather bed with well-aired sheets.

1603 T. Lodge Treat. Plague vii. sig. E4^v This is the order and maner which euery one ought to obserue..that the houses be kept cleane and well ayred, and be perfumed with water and vinegar.

1612 E. Grimeston tr. L. T. de Mayerne Gen. Hist. Spaine xxvi. 935 He could neuer get her to lodge in any pleasant and well ayred chamber of the castle, but would alwaies lurke in darke and obscure places neere the ground.

?a1676 T. Bell Nehemiah Tirshatha (1692) 110 Would not any person of a Holy breath, prefer a Cottage in a well aired Wilderness, to the foul winds and corrupt infectious air of these plaguy times?

1763 tr. Dutch Florist (N. van Kempen & Son) 83 When the roots are cleaned they are to be laid by in a very well aired room.

1829 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi. (note) in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 256 The situation in the centre of the High Street rendered it [sc. the Tolbooth] so particularly well-aired, that when the plague laid waste the city in 1645, it affected none within these melancholy precincts.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. v. 62 The bed-room of a patient labouring under fever should be well-aired.

1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. i. i. 47 Well-aired locality.

1932 Rotarian Jan. 56/3 The children live together in happy comradeship in sunny, well-aired wards.

1980 Christian Sci. Monitor 20 Aug. b6 The comfortable, spotlessly clean, well-aired rooms and suites are either modern or rusticly charming.

1996 Vegetarian Times Aug. 55/3 Potatoes should be stored in a cool, dark and well-aired bin or a paper bag.