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Synonyms for tanned

Grammar : Verb
Spell : tan
Phonetic Transcription : tæn

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Définition of tanned

Origin :
  • late Old English tannian "to convert hide into leather" (by steeping it in tannin), from Medieval Latin tannare "tan, dye, a tawny color" (c.900), from tannum "crushed oak bark," used in tanning leather, probably from a Celtic source (e.g. Breton tann "oak tree"). The meaning "make brown by exposure to the sun" first recorded 1520s. To tan (someone's) hide in the figurative sense is from 1660s. Related: Tanned; tanning.
  • verb flog, whip
Example sentences :
  • Herkimer's tanned and swarthy face changed color at this taunt.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • Did you see that, Fedora, tanned as a roof guard and with that hair!
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • Tanned leather is best cleaned with nitrous acid and salts of lemon diluted with water, and afterwards mixed with skimmed milk.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • Their skin is tanned to a leathery hue, and is of a texture akin to hide.
  • Extract from : « The Twins of Suffering Creek » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Tanned scalps, if kept from moths, may be preserved unmounted for a long time.
  • Extract from : « Taxidermy » by Leon Luther Pray
  • She was trembling with excitement, and the colour came and went in her tanned cheeks.
  • Extract from : « Against Odds » by Lawrence L. Lynch
  • Tanned face and hands are treated with other soothing liquid that does no harm.
  • Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
  • Her tanned cheeks were flushed, her fine square shoulders were tense.
  • Extract from : « The Forbidden Trail » by Honor Willsie
  • The heat-flush in the girl's tanned cheeks deepened to rose.
  • Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • Look at the rip his horns made in the tanned canvas, would you?
  • Extract from : « Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay » by G. Harvey Ralphson

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