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

Then from their bases leap the rolling foot-hills, brown and bare but for the dense growth of the sun-cured buffalo-grass.

From Marion's Faith. by Charles King

The scanty grasses were long ago turned into sun-cured hay by the fierce summer heats.

From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

His shirt sleeves were rolled up and his arms were the color of sun-cured tobacco, or the mud pies that sister used to bake.

From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman

All looked at him as he stood on his cauterized feet, stretching his arms, lean and sun-cured, upward in the firelight.

From Lazarre by Mary Hartwell Catherwood