sand-bakedadj.
/ˈsandbeɪkt/, U.S. /ˈsændˌbeɪkt/ 1. Extremely hot, dry, etc., as a result of prolonged exposure to hot sand or the scorching heat of a desert.
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1873 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Feb. 134/1 He had felt..an agreeable coolness to his sand-baked feet.
1921 B. S. Ortman N.Y. to Peking xxv. 105 They [sc. Mongolian camels]..have better nerves and sweeter tempers than the sand-baked beasts of burden I met in Egypt or India.
2016 S. J. Gordon Because of Eva xi. 125 We..arrived in a sand-baked inland town not far from San Diego.
2. Of food: baked on a bed of heated sand or in a pot or pan surrounded by or buried in hot sand. Frequently in sand-baked beans, a traditional dish in Canada and New England.
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1895 New Eng. Kitchen Mag. Aug. 241/1 Canned baked beans, though convenient and good, do not compare with sand baked.
1900 Puritan Aug. 635/1 Nothing could be nicer than a sand baked chicken or steak.
1998 C. Smith Gypsies, Preachers & Big White Bears ix. 113/1 The memory of those sand-baked beans lasted over the decades.
2013 Bournemouth Echo (Nexis) 13 Oct. I..had a chance to try their traditional sand-baked flat bread dipped in a mixture of olive oil and honey.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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