cloud-built
adj1
unsubstantial or imaginary.
- on the summit of a cloud-built height1761, Hew Dalrymple, Woodstock. An Elegy:
- both of them so flimsy and cloud-built, that they are unable to withstand even the soft impressions of their adverse debility.1799, Analytical Review:
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- Of love undying and of endless praise For beauty only—chief of all thy kind; Immortal, even because of thy brief days; Thou cloud-built, fairy city of the mind!1908, Richard Watson Gilder, Vanishing City:
- Related terms
- castle in the air