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sun bath

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noun

  1. the exposure of the body to the rays of the sun or a sun lamp, esp in order to get a suntan

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There he began to watch a mud-dauber wasp as she buzzed purposefully to the window sill, stretched her forefeet out like a kitten, and took a sun bath.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prying grown-ups catch Julian and Hildegarde taking a perfectly innocent sun bath after a swim.

From Time Magazine Archive

She found her sitting alone in the house, her mother having taken a fancy to have a sun bath.

From A Beautiful Possibility by Edith Ferguson Black

Johnny Chuck watched them out of sight, and then he settled himself on his doorstep once more to enjoy a sun bath.

From Mother West Wind's Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

He guided her to his favourite place for a sun bath; and followed the farmer's plow in the corn field until he found a big sweet beetle.

From The Song of the Cardinal by Gene Stratton-Porter

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