单词 | sun-thickened |
释义 | sun-thickenedadj. Thickened by exposure to the sun. ΚΠ 1914 A. Lowell in Egoist 16 Feb. 68/2 Orange flashed up, Through the sun-thickened water. 1934 Fairfield (Iowa) Daily Ledger 8 Sept. 2/1 Sun-thickened skin must be scrubbed soft. 1990 Independent (Nexis) 14 Apr. 37 Sun-thickened grapeskins and high natural sugars created exceptional problems of vinification. 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Aug. (Final ed.) w35 The shaggy man..with the sun-thickened skin. Compounds sun-thickened oil n. a polymerized oil of a honey-like consistency used as a base in oil painting and produced by exposing linseed oil to the sun; more fully sun-thickened linseed oil. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > linseed oil > oil derived from sun-thickened oil1935 1935 E. Neuhaus tr. M. Doerner Materials of Artist iii. 105 Sun-thickened oil is to be preferred to boiled oils, as also to the resin-oil varnishes. 1961 Daily Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi) 21 Sept. 2/2 Beginning with a blank canvas which had been rubbed with sun-thickened linseed oil. 2004 Amer. Artist Feb. 16/1 Stand oil and sun-thickened oil require at least a week to dry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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