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ˈsun-baked, a.
1. Baked by exposure to the sun, as bricks, pottery, etc.
a1700Evelyn Diary 19 Aug. an. 1641, A kind of white sun-bak'd brick. 1888E. Clodd Story Creation xi. 217 The sun-baked clay hut. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 322 Fan pottery, although rough and sunbaked, is artistic in form.
2. Excessively heated by the sun; dried up, parched, or hardened by the heat of the sun.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] xxviii. 88 When the Sun⁓bak'd Peasant goes to feast it with a Gentleman. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Art Wks. (Bohn) I. 145 Let spouting fountains cool the air, Singing in the sun-baked square. 1891Kipling Light that Failed xiii. 243 A sun-baked rose below nodded its head. |