early American
adjective
Belonging to or characteristic of the colonial and immediate post-Revolutionary period in America, typically regarded as extending until the late 18th or early 19th cent.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in The Critic.
- well tube
- well-tuned
- well turned
- well-turned-out
- well-tutored
- well-twisted
- well-understood
- well upholstered
- well-urged
- well used
- well-varied
- well-ventilated
- well-voiced
- well-walled
- well-warmed
- well-warranted
- well-washed
- well water
- well-watered
- wellway
- well-weaponed
- well-wearing
- well-weighed
- well wheel
- well-whipped