Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The coat of plaster used after roughing in, and floated, or pricked up and floated.
- noun A word sometimes inscribed on barometers at a point where the instrument is supposed to indicate settled fair weather. Also
set fair .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun In
plastering , a particularly goodtrowelled surface .
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Examples
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They had not for many years been at "set-fair," nor have they apparently reached that halcyon stage as yet.
William of Germany Stanley Shaw
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They had not for many years been at “set-fair,” nor have they apparently reached that halcyon stage as yet.
William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913
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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.
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Dieppe with a set-fair breeze, having only a fisherman’s boy for guide.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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