cloud-built in English

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      "form": "more cloud-built",
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          "ref": "1761, Hew Dalrymple, Woodstock. An Elegy",
          "text": "on the summit of a cloud-built height",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1799, Analytical Review",
          "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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}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more cloud-built",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most cloud-built",
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        "superlative"
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          "text": "on the summit of a cloud-built height",
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        },
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          "ref": "1799, Analytical Review",
          "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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"cloud-built" meaning in English

Adjective