sunburnt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌn.bɝnt/
Forms: form: more sunburnt
form: most sunburnt
form: sunburned
Etymology: From Middle English sunne brente, equivalent to sun + burnt.
Senses: examples: text: You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, / Come hither from the furrow and be merry:
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: […] I must beg leave to say for my self, that I am as fair as most of my Sex and Country, and very little sun-burnt by my Travels.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 171:
text: He looked and smelt like Autumn’s very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains […]
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XII, in The Woodlanders […], volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 230:
text: His face was sunburned bright red, and the skin of his ears was peeling.
ref: 2000, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, New York: Random House, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 168:
glosses: Having a sunburn or dark tan; having been burned by the sun's rays.
raw_tags: of human skin
examples: text: 1753, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 53, 20 October, 1753, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, Volume 2, p. 191,
The barren Heath, and the Sun-burnt craggy Soil appear with all those Softenings to the Eye, which Distance throws upon a Landscape;
text: the well-remembered dusty road and sun-burnt fields
ref: 1842, Charles Dickens, chapter VII, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 267:
text: The […] fortress of the Incas stood on a lofty eminence, the steep sides of which […] were cut into terraces, defended by strong walls of stone and sunburnt brick.
ref: 1847, William H. Prescott, chapter X, in A History of the Conquest of Peru, volume II, page 73:
text: [O]ut on to the bare hillside’s sunburnt grass
ref: 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter XIII, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 329:
glosses: Dried out by the sun's rays.
raw_tags: of plants and other objects
examples: text: So my dear Charles, you are at length […] arrived in our little sun-burnt island?
ref: 1790, Samuel Jackson Pratt, The New Cosmetic: or The Triumph of Beauty, London, act I, page 3:
text: […] when distances are obscured by mist […] the foreground assumes all its loveliest hues, the grass and foliage revive into their perfect green, and every sunburnt rock glows into an agate.
ref: 1856, John Ruskin, chapter 16, in Modern Painters […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part V (Of Mountain Beauty), page 251:
text: Most of it [the island of Mauritius] was high […] so that gusts of fresh winds often blew exuberantly off the sea, and the British could build their villas far above the sunburnt coast.
ref: 1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 536:
glosses: Subject to the strong heat and/or light of the sun.
raw_tags: of places or objects
examples: text: The van was painted a sunburnt brown.
glosses: Resembling a sunburn in color.