wind-dried
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Skerpikjet—fermented and wind-dried lamb—served on reindeer lichen with mushrooms.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018
Two Faroese delicacies, fermented ocean perch and wind-dried pilot whale, hanging in a shed perforated with air vents.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018
“My teacher in Sichuan used to whip up a quick, casual lunch of yesterday’s rice stir-fried with morsels of homemade wind-dried sausage and other odds and ends,” Ms. Dunlop said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 12, 2016
While Port Walter in the southern panhandle is flooded by 18 feet of annual rainfall, the wind-dried North Slope is an Arctic desert that gets only four inches of precipitation a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The new tenant was a sallow, gaunt, wind-dried seamstress of sixty, who paid her rent punctually, but who was— “Mighty poor comp’ny to thim as’s been used to the upper tin, Mr. Ristofalo.”
From Dr. Sevier by Cable, George Washington
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