Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The coat of plaster used after roughing in, and floated, or pricked up and floated.
- n. A word sometimes inscribed on barometers at a point where the instrument is supposed to indicate settled fair weather. Also set fair.
Wiktionary
- n. In plastering, a particularly good trowelled surface.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface.
Examples
“They had not for many years been at "set-fair," nor have they apparently reached that halcyon stage as yet.”
“They had not for many years been at “set-fair,” nor have they apparently reached that halcyon stage as yet.”
“Sussex coast a band of haymakers, when the rick was done, and their wages in hand on a Saturday night, laid hold of a stout boat on the beach, pushed off to sea in tipsy faith of luck, and hit upon Dieppe with a set-fair breeze, having only a fisherman's boy for guide.”
“Dieppe with a set-fair breeze, having only a fisherman’s boy for guide.”
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