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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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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

The halves, when dried, are broken by hand into still smaller irregular fragments, and subjected to one or two days of sun bath.

From The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines by William S. (Scrugham) Lyon

Sitting there in a limp, dejected attitude, perfectly still, he looked for all the world like a small shopkeeper taking a sun bath for his rheumatism.

From The Downfall by E. P. Robins

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

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