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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.


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

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The road to Sujbulāk passes over uplands and hill-slopes, tawny with sun-cured grass, and after crossing some low spurs, blue with the lovely Eryngium cæruleum, descends into a long rich valley watered by the river Sanak.

From Project Gutenberg

After five hours of toiling up the Drinayi Pass, taking several deep fords, and being detained by a baggage horse falling fifty feet with his load, we crossed the summit, and by a long descent through hills of rounded outlines covered with uncut sun-cured hay, reached the plain of Gawar, where the guards left us.

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All else is uncut sun-cured hay, and its pale uniform buff colour is soft, and an improvement on the glare of bare gravel.

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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 Project Gutenberg

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.

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