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▪ I. sunburn, n.|ˈsʌnbɜːn|
[f. sunburn v. OE. had sunbryne.]
1. a. The condition of being sunburnt; discoloration or superficial inflammation of the skin caused by exposure to the sun; the brown colour or tan thus produced.
1652Sir C. Cotterell tr. Calprenède's Cassandra i. ii. (1676) 2 The sunburn and toil of a long journey had..taken off the lustre of his former beauty. 1820Good Nosology 505 Ephelis. Cuticle tawny by exposure to the sun; often spotted with dark freckles,..Sun-burn. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. viii, Our faces took the sunburn kindly. 1895Pall Mall Mag. 291 A big..man, with a..crooked line of sunburn across his forehead. 1896Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xvi, I found that my right knee and thigh have their beautiful..surface marred by eight..blotches of ruddy sunburn.
transf.1891M. M. Dowie Girl in Karp. 134 He was incapacitated three days with sunburn in his muscles. 1893K. A. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. California 93 Another morning you may stumble out trying to rub yesterday's sunburn from your eyes.
b. In plants: = heliosis 2.
1866Treas. Bot. 1896E. G. Lodeman Spray. Plants 364 Leaf Blight; Rust; Sunburn (Sphærella Fragariæ).
2. The name of a fashion colour.
1923Daily Mail 11 Sept. 11 Nude, Sunburn, Mulatto, and all shades. 1932Barker's Sales Catal. 27 Poplin tennis shirts... Guaranteed fast self colours of blue, champagne, helio, ivory, sunburn, white and light grey.
▪ II. ˈsunburn, v.
[Back-formation from sunburning, sunburnt.]
1. trans. To ‘burn’, scorch, or discolour (usually the skin) by exposure to the sun; to affect with sunburn; to tan. Also fig.
1530Palsgr. 725/1, I sonne burne, as ones face, or their handes do that the sonne shyneth moche apon, je hasle. 1611Cotgr., Haler, to Sunne-burne or scorch in the Sunne. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 1 Hot dayes, which haue Sun⁓burnt my lines, aswell as face. 1667Dryden & Dk. Newcastle Sir M. Mar-all ii. i, My aunt charged me not to pull off my glove for fear of sun-burning my hand. 1805Emily Clark Banks of Douro III. 68 The scorching rays had sun-burnt his face. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. iii. §2. 218 The Venetians..sunburn all their hermits into splendid russet brown. 1909Miss G. Guinness Peru v. 45 The dry season has sunburnt the hillsides.
2. intr. for pass. To be discoloured or tanned by exposure to the sun; also of a plant (cf. prec. b).
1832J. Wilson in Trans. Hortic. Soc. (1835) I. 211 If the sun be bright, the leaves would sun-burn in a short time. 1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xxix. 640 An Indian will ‘sunburn’ as much or even more than a white man. 1928Daily Mail 6 Aug. 12/6 One girl tells me she ‘doesn't sunburn easily’. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File i. 14 He had a clear complexion that sunburnt easily. |