sunbaked
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Baked by the heat of the sun.
- Though tempered in hotter climates, I had no sooner driven out of the sombre hotel and the deep shade of the great Cathedral, by which it has been darkened for ages, than I was conscious that the temperature of Rheims even could occasionally rise to a height to test the endurance of the most sunbaked.1867, Robert Tomes, The Champagne Country, page 112:
- 1995 (1966), Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds (translator), The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume 1, page 235, Morocco is another, more sunbaked Italy.
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- He found his way to San Pedro, which, with its rolling topography and adjacent harbor, bore a certain resemblance to a more sunbaked County Cork, a quality that attracted more than a few Irish, many of whom worked unloading cargo from around the world.2008, Seth Greenland, Shining City, page 85:
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Figuratively Suntanned