sun-cured

American  

[suhn-kyoord] / ˈsʌnˌkjʊərd /

adjective

1. cured or preserved by exposure to the rays of the sun, as meat, fish, fruit, tobacco, etc.

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sun-cured British  

adjective

1. cured or preserved by exposure to the sun

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Etymology

Origin of sun-cured

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

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sun-cured

A sun-cured, white-bearded bachelor of 52, White lives alone except for the hedgehogs, snakes and hawks that he favors as pets.

From Time Magazine Archive

The scanty grasses were long ago turned into sun-cured hay by the fierce summer heats.

From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

"Couldn't we fry them over the lamp?" asked the girl, who obviously had not taken kindly to the suggestion that the fish should be sun-cured.

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

The smoke was now in the air, and up the unshorn valley came the fire remorselessly, licking up the under lying layer of sun-cured grass which a winter's snow had matted down.

From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson

He stared out across the bush, a flat expanse of sun-cured grass interspersed with thickets of hula-scrub and thorn and occasional groves of trees, criss-crossed by treacherous ravines and spotted with infrequent waterholes.

From The World That Couldn't Be by Simak, Clifford D.