sun-cured

[ suhn-kyoo rd ]

/ ˈsʌnˌkyʊərd /

adjective

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

Nearby words

sun valley, sun visor, sun wheel, sun yat-sen, sun-and-planet gear, sun-cured, sun-dried, sun-god, sun., sunback, sunbake

Origin of sun-cured

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

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Examples from the Web for sun-cured

All cigar leaf tobacco is sun-cured, and as a general rule pipe smoking and chewing tobacco are cured by artificial heat.
Tobacco Leaves|W. A. Brennan
All looked at him as he stood on his cauterized feet, stretching his arms, lean and sun-cured, upward in the firelight.
Lazarre|Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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.
The Lash|Olin L. Lyman
Then from their bases leap the rolling foot-hills, brown and bare but for the dense growth of the sun-cured buffalo-grass.
Marion's Faith.|Charles King

The bows were made of sun-cured hickory saplings the size of a mans wrist and eight feet long.
Makers and Romance of Alabama History|B. F. Riley

British Dictionary definitions for sun-cured

sun-cured

adjective

cured or preserved by exposure to the sun

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