well-tanned, ppl. a.
Of skin, hide, etc. Now chiefly with sense ‘tanned by the sun, sunburnt’.
| 1784 Cowper Task i. 51 The rest..content With base materials, sat on well-tann'd hides. 1867 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (ed. 4) xlvii. 89 Preferring..those well-tann'd to those that keep out of the sun. 1892 ‘Mark Twain’ Amer. Claimant xvi. 164 He had a well-tanned complexion. 1916 Joyce Portrait of Artist (1969) ii. 60 Uncle Charles was a hale old man with a welltanned skin. |