sun-cured

American  

[suhn-kyoord] / ˈsʌnˌkyʊərd /

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

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 King, Charles

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 Lyman, Olin L.

Then he saw Bill, standing amid the dogs, half triumphant, half crestfallen, in one hand a stout club, in the other the tail and part of the body of a sun-cured salmon.

From White Fang by London, Jack

They tell me, by the way, that the yellow, sun-cured leaf is coming into favour in the market.

From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson