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

Only some very wooden cake bread, and some very dry tough beef, with a strong flavour of being imperfectly sun-cured; but how delicious it was when washed down by the warm, unsweetened, milkless tea!

From Real Gold A Story of Adventure by Fenn, George Manville

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

Leaving the Ab-i-Diz, the path pursues valleys with streams and dry torrent-beds, much wooded with oak and hawthorn, with hills above, buff with uncut sun-cured hay, magnificent pasturage, but scantily supplied with water.

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)

"All's well that ends well!" quoth Mr. Hatton, one evening soon after, as he blew a cloud of "Lynchburg sun-cured" tobacco-smoke across the top of the old Argand and tossed McLean a Cheyenne paper.

From Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. by King, Charles