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sun bath

British  

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

In such case they will glide down into the water with astonishing rapidity, seize their prey, and after swallowing it, return to their sun bath.

From Âmona; The Child; And The Beast; And Others From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 by Louis Becke

And mark my words; this day will see The end of our good company; We twain shall part—not as we met— Full sadly ere yon sun bath set.'

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Robert Black

His all-day sun bath surprised me so that I let him alone, to see how long he would sit still, and went fishing for other frogs.

From Wilderness Ways by Charles Copeland

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