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Definition of Sunburnt
1. Adjective. Suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight.
Definition of Sunburnt
1. Adjective. Having a sunburn; having been burned by the sun's rays ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sunburnt
1. sunburn [v] - See also: sunburn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunburnt
Literary usage of Sunburnt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reading-literature: Fourth Reader by Harriette Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free, Thomas Henry Briggs, Henry William Shryock (1918)
"The summer's heats have lulled asleep The fish-hawk's chattering noise, And all
the swamp lies hushed about You sunburnt boys. You see the minnow's waves ..."
2. The Man of Iron by Richard Dehan (1915)
"... with his sunburnt fingers in the dust a little, and tried to lift a hand to
his perspiring chest. By the tin crucifix dependent from a leather bootlace ..."
3. The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (1820)
"Cool'da long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting; of Flora and the country green.
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth ! ..."
4. Novels by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1906)
"He has come back,' he wrote to her, ' sunburnt and dusty to his very eyebrows ;
but where and why he went I don't know; won't you find out ? ..."
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