sun-cured

[ suhn-kyoo rd ]

/ ˈsʌnˌkyʊərd /

cured or preserved by exposure to the rays of the sun, as meat, fish, fruit, tobacco, etc.

Origin of sun-cured

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

All cigar leaf tobacco is sun-cured, and as a general rule pipe smoking and chewing tobacco are cured by artificial heat.

Tobacco Leaves |W. A. Brennan
All looked at him as he stood on his cauterized feet, stretching his arms, lean and sun-cured, upward in the firelight.

Lazarre |Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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.

The Lash |Olin L. Lyman
Then from their bases leap the rolling foot-hills, brown and bare but for the dense growth of the sun-cured buffalo-grass.

Marion's Faith. |Charles King

The bows were made of sun-cured hickory saplings the size of a mans wrist and eight feet long.

Makers and Romance of Alabama History |B. F. Riley

sun-cured

cured or preserved by exposure to the sun