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well-tanned, ppl. a.
Of skin, hide, etc. Now chiefly with sense ‘tanned by the sun, sunburnt’.
1784Cowper Task i. 51 The rest..content With base materials, sat on well-tann'd hides. 1867W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (ed. 4) xlvii. 89 Preferring..those well-tann'd to those that keep out of the sun. 1892‘Mark Twain’ Amer. Claimant xvi. 164 He had a well-tanned complexion. 1916Joyce Portrait of Artist (1969) ii. 60 Uncle Charles was a hale old man with a welltanned skin. |