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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

Each afternoon the cage was placed out on the lawn so Pollymckittrick could have her sun bath.

From The Killer by Stewart Edward White

Whether they had completed their sun bath, or whether the call of their appetites moved them, it was impossible to say.

From The Outdoor Girls in Florida Or, Wintering in the Sunny South by Laura Lee Hope

Then she lay down on the sand to sun herself and acted as though going to take a sun bath, when suddenly she discovered me and fled.

From A-Birding on a Bronco by Florence A. Merriam

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