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sun bath

British

noun

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

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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

Later she enticed him out of the thicket to enjoy his first sun bath.

From Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories by Adams, Andy

A sun bath of twenty minutes is a good tonic.

From The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture by Stevans, Helen Follett

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 Black, Robert

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