sunburnt
Adjective
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Adjective
sunburnt
- (of human skin) Having a sunburn or dark tan; having been burned by the sun's rays.
- circa 1611 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1,
- You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary,
- Come hither from the furrow and be merry:
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, London: Benjamin Motte, Volume 1, Part 2, Chapter 1, p. 171,
- […] I must beg leave to say for my self, that I am as fair as most of my Sex and Country, and very little sun-burnt by my Travels.
- 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, London: Macmillan, Volume 2, Chapter 12, p. 230,
- He looked and smelt like Autumn’s very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains […]
- 2000, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, New York: Random House, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 168,
- His face was sunburned bright red, and the skin of his ears was peeling.
- circa 1611 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1,
- (of plants and other objects) Dried by the sun's rays.
- 1753, Arthur Murphy (writer), The Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 53, 20 October, 1753, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, Volume 2, p. 191,
- The barren Heath, and the Sun-burnt craggy Soil appear with all those Softenings to the Eye, which Distance throws upon a Landscape;
- 1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 7, p. 267,
- the well-remembered dusty road and sun-burnt fields
- 1847, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru, New York: Harper, Volume 2, Books 3, Chapter 10, p. 73,
- The […] fortress of the Incas stood on a lofty eminence, the steep sides of which […] were cut into terraces, defended by strong walls of stone and sunburnt brick.
- 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim (novel), London: Macmillan, 1902, Chapter 13, p. 329,
- out on to the bare hillside’s sunburnt grass
- 1753, Arthur Murphy (writer), The Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 53, 20 October, 1753, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, Volume 2, p. 191,
- (of places or objects) Subject to the strong heat and/or light of the sun.
- 1790, Samuel Jackson Pratt, The New Cosmetic: or The Triumph of Beauty, London: for the author, Act I, p. 3,
- So my dear Charles, you are at length […] arrived in our little sun-burnt island?
- 1856, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 4, Part 5, Chapter 16, p. 251,
- […] when distances are obscured by mist […] the foreground assumes all its loveliest hues, the grass and foliage revive into their perfect green, and every sunburnt rock glows into an agate.
- 1978, Jan Morris, Pax Britannica Trilogy, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 536,
- Most of it [the island of Mauritius
] was high […] so that gusts of fresh winds often blew exuberantly off the sea, and the British could build their villas far above the sunburnt coast.
- Most of it [the island of Mauritius
- 1790, Samuel Jackson Pratt, The New Cosmetic: or The Triumph of Beauty, London: for the author, Act I, p. 3,
- Resembling a sunburn in color.
- The van was painted a sunburnt brown.
- German: sonnenverbrannt
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