Definition of "straw-built" [straw-built]

• Built or constructed of straw.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The eye or mind which feels as well as sees can give dignity and pathos to a ruined mill, or a straw-built shed"
• "She took him back and showed him the bedrooms and they are marvelous places for -- wonderful places for these kids to stay, and she did a brilliant job, and they are all different colors, and all adobe, it is a straw-built constructed adobe hacienda, about 14,000 square feet, magnificent facility."
• "Screams from her straw-built nest, as from the womb"