单词 | sunbaked |
释义 | sunbakedadj. 1. Excessively heated by the sun; dried up, parched, or hardened by the heat of the sun.In quot. 1910 in extended use, with the sense ‘suntanned’; cf. sunbake n. 2, sunbake v., sunbaking n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) > by heat or parched > by sun sun-dried?1440 sunburnta1586 sunbaked1628 rizzaredc1745 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injured by heat or fire > parched > by the sun sunburnta1586 scorcheda1593 sun-dried1604 sunbaked1628 sun-dry1885 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxviii. sig. N4v When the Sun-bak'd Peasant goes to feast it with a Gentleman. 1753 London Daily Advertiser 28 Mar. The new discovered Quaw-waws of Spitsbergen..who exchange..a Club for a String of Sun-baked Chitterling. 1794 R. Jephson Rom. Portraits 118 Along the wharf, with languid loit'ring pace, Strolls an enervate, worthless, sun-bak'd race. 1828 Farrier & Naturalist June 243 Hard roads, as on the mountains, and on the sun-baked tracts. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiii. 243 A sun-baked rose below nodded its head. 1910 Truth (Sydney) 9 Oct. 2/8 If those sun baking barrackers really desire to get sun baked in ‘the altogether’, why do they not repair to Tamarama Bay. 1963 Furrow 14 709 The heroine Winnie, a hearty middleaged woman, is buried to her waist in a mound of sunbaked earth. 2000 Independent 2 Nov. 18/2 You bowl for hundreds of miles through the monotonous sunbaked plains of La Mancha south of Madrid. 2. Of clay, pottery, a brick, etc.: baked by the heat of the sun.Apparently not recorded in 18th cent. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > [adjective] annealeda1382 burnt1387 bakena1425 baked1545 pot-baked1545 nealed1576 sunburnt1634 hard-burnt?a1656 sunbakedc1660 c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 48 A kind of White sun-bak'd brick. 1834 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 6 Dec. In a cist in the centre of the barrow was found a sun-baked British urn. 1888 E. Clodd Story of Creation xi. 217 The sun-baked clay hut. 1923 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 5/1 The unpretentious villages, built of sun-baked bricks, acquire an aspect more miserable than before. 1985 N.Y. Times 28 Apr. (Connecticut Weekly section) 10/6 The discovery of a small cone of sunbaked clay tucked inside a closet. 2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. & Technol. 22/3 8000 BCE..People living in Jericho..build dome-shaped houses from sun-baked brick that is formed entirely by hand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1628 |
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