wind-dried
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
Skerpikjet—fermented and wind-dried lamb—served on reindeer lichen with mushrooms.
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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Joe added, not a gleam of humor to be seen anywhere in the whole surface of his wind-dried face.
From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
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