"cloud-built" meaning in All languages combined

See cloud-built on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more cloud-built [comparative], most cloud-built [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} cloud-built (comparative more cloud-built, superlative most cloud-built)
  1. unsubstantial or imaginary. Related terms: castle in the air
    Sense id: en-cloud-built-en-adj-1hByPDGM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1761, Hew Dalrymple, Woodstock. An Elegy:",
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          "text": "both of them so flimsy and cloud-built, that they are unable to withstand even the soft impressions of their adverse debility.",
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          "ref": "1908, Richard Watson Gilder, Vanishing City:",
          "text": "Of love undying and of endless praise\n⁠For beauty only—chief of all thy kind;\nImmortal, even because of thy brief days;\n⁠Thou cloud-built, fairy city of the mind!",
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          "word": "castle in the air"
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