sun-cured

[ suhn-kyoord ]

adjective

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

sun-cured

adjective

1. cured or preserved by exposure to the sun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sun-cured¹

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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All cigar leaf tobacco is sun-cured, and as a general rule pipe smoking and chewing tobacco are cured by artificial heat.

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A tobacco axe used to harvest sun-cured tobacco in the Connecticut Valley region.

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