sun-cured
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of sun-cured
An Americanism dating back to 1875–80
Example Sentences
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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
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 Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
The drying-houses in other tobacco-growing countries differ but little from those described, while the manner of curing is similar, the plants being "fired," sun-cured, or air-dried—the three modes now employed in drying the leaves.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.
He put five sun-cured salmon into the oven to thaw out for the dogs, and from the water-hole filled his coffee-pot and cooking-pail.
From Love of Life and Other Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston
Sometimes herds of cattle were browsing on the sun-cured grass, then herds of horses.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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