The word “far-famed” is proper and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is well-known or widely renowned. For example, “The far-famed artist is known throughout the world for his magnificent paintings.”.
He is better honoured in her autobiography dedication: "For Gerry - may his long fight encourage all those young artists oppressed by our far-famed English philistines".
'In all the world, there is not, perhaps... so much swindling and villainy, so much foul disease, such a hideous dung-heap of moral and physical abomination as in the scene of this far-famed undertaking......
The deterioration of Cuba's far-famed health service since then has shocked him.In his stay at the Calixto Garcia hospital in Havana, he saw some nurses refuse to work unless patients paid them 50 pesos a day (about $2.20, at the official rate; the average Cuban monthly salary is 200 pesos).
Open the shrine, that I may see my saint!" His far-famed shark with its pretentious title, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, is "nature" for those who have no conception of nature, in whose life nature plays no real part except as a shallow emblem, a still from Jaws.
The startling announcement that such a measure was in contemplation may have caused some readers of The Times to brush up their school-boy recollections by a hasty glance at the Classical Dictionary, and the anachronism may have struck them as no less singular than that the celebration should take place at Athens, instead of on the grassy banks of the river Alpheus in far-famed Olympia.
Therefore, the far-famed Theotokos do we magnify".
Those ahead of their game – and both Jacobs and Prada are fashion frontrunners par excellence – are far from famed for a lengthy attention span, after all.
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is an annual August event held in South Dakota's Black Hills, not far from famed Mt. Rushmore.
He and his wife Mary-Anne positioned themselves on the beach, not far from famed broadcast newsman Walter Cronkite.
So they were shuttled to the Sheraton Atlantic City Hotel, not far from the famed Boardwalk, where last-minute evacuees were being put up.
Perhaps because Mr. Claus is a character famed far and wide for diplomacy and, above all, minimal disclosure, the debate quickly took on a life of its own.
