sun-cured
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of sun-cured
An Americanism dating back to 1875–80
Example Sentences
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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
Leaving the Ab-i-Diz, the path pursues valleys with streams and dry torrent-beds, much wooded with oak and hawthorn, with hills above, buff with uncut sun-cured hay, magnificent pasturage, but scantily supplied with water.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
He put five sun-cured salmon into the oven to thaw out for the dogs, and from the water-hole filled his coffee-pot and cooking-pail.
From Love of Life and Other Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston
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)
Only some very wooden cake bread, and some very dry tough beef, with a strong flavour of being imperfectly sun-cured; but how delicious it was when washed down by the warm, unsweetened, milkless tea!
From Real Gold A Story of Adventure by Fenn, George Manville
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