sun-cured

American  

[suhn-kyoord] / ˈsʌnˌkjʊərd /

adjective

1. cured or preserved by exposure to the rays of the sun, as meat, fish, fruit, tobacco, etc.

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sun-cured British  

adjective

1. cured or preserved by exposure to the sun

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Etymology

Origin of sun-cured

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

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sun-cured

A sun-cured, white-bearded bachelor of 52, White lives alone except for the hedgehogs, snakes and hawks that he favors as pets.

From Time Magazine Archive

All else is uncut sun-cured hay, and its pale uniform buff colour is soft, and an improvement on the glare of bare gravel.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

He put five sun-cured salmon into the oven to thaw out for the dogs, and from the water-hole filled his coffee-pot and cooking-pail.

From Love of Life and Other Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston

The drying-houses in other tobacco-growing countries differ but little from those described, while the manner of curing is similar, the plants being "fired," sun-cured, or air-dried—the three modes now employed in drying the leaves.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.

He stared out across the bush, a flat expanse of sun-cured grass interspersed with thickets of hula-scrub and thorn and occasional groves of trees, criss-crossed by treacherous ravines and spotted with infrequent waterholes.

From The World That Couldn't Be by Simak, Clifford D.