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tanned
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tanned
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tanned complexion (=brown because of the sun)
▪ He looked distinguished with his greying hair and tanned complexion.
tanned
▪ His skin was slightly tanned.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
▪ Vivid blue eyes glittered in his tanned face.
▪ The journalist blinked at her for a few seconds before his tanned face collapsed, reminding Blanche of one of her unsuccessful soufflés.
▪ But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades.
▪ His blue eyes were dazzlingly powerful in his strong, tanned face.
skin
▪ His white teeth and brown oval eyes stood out in stark contrast against his dark tanned skin.
▪ The fashion for tanned skin is the main cause of the doubling of malignant skin cancers in the last ten years.
▪ Their womenfolk were dressed in tanned skins with beads woven into their hair.
▪ And with his tanned skin, snake tattoo on his left arm and fit physique he certainly looks the part.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And with his tanned skin, snake tattoo on his left arm and fit physique he certainly looks the part.
▪ Boot leathers are usually chrome tanned then impregnated with a mixture of paraffin wax and paraffin oil.
▪ Guido continued to watch her, toying with the salt cellar, his long tanned fingers very dark against the white cloth.
▪ He peeled off his T-shirt, revealing a chunky tanned torso that reeked of Lifebuoy soap.
▪ It wells up her perfectly tanned throat and finally she starts to shake, honey blonde hair cascading over slim shoulders.
▪ Rachel stared fixedly at his tanned throat where the white shirt was unbuttoned.
▪ Their womenfolk were dressed in tanned skins with beads woven into their hair.
▪ Vivid blue eyes glittered in his tanned face.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tanned

Tan \Tan\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tanned; p. pr. & vb. n. Tanning.] [F. tanner, LL. tannare. See Tan, n.]

  1. To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.

    Note: The essential result in tanning is due to the fact that the tannins form, with gelatins and albuminoids, a series of insoluble compounds which constitute leather. Similar results may be produced by the use of other reagents in place of tannin, as alum, and some acids or chlorides, which are employed in certain processes of tanning.

  2. To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.

  3. To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch; as, to tan a disobedient child's hide. [Colloq.]

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Wiktionary
tanned

  1. 1 Having a suntan. 2 (context of leather English) finish, made using tannic acid (as opposed to abrasion). v

  2. (en-pasttan)

WordNet
tan

  1. adj. of a light yellowish-brown color

  2. [also: tanning, tanned, tannest, tanner]

tan

  1. n. a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun [syn: suntan, sunburn, burn]

  2. a light brown [syn: topaz]

  3. ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle [syn: tangent]

  4. [also: tanning, tanned, tannest, tanner]

tanned

  1. adj. (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun; "a young bronzed Apollo" [syn: bronzed, browned, suntanned]

  2. converted to leather by a tanning agent [ant: untanned]

tan

  1. v. treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather

  2. get a tan, from wind or sun [syn: bronze]

  3. [also: tanning, tanned, tannest, tanner]

tanned

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Usage examples of "tanned".

Dark eyes in tanned, tattooed Wickan faces held cold and firm on Baria and Mesker Setral and their warriors.

He grinned calmly at Barton, hands on his hips, face gleaming and tanned in the bright sunlight.

The woman is tanned and double-chinned, large enough that even Bonny with her Bay Area tastes tags her big.

Sometime in the last hour he had bathed and shaved and he was wearing a fresh shirt, linen this time rather than homespun or buckskin, creamy white against the tanned column of his neck.

His forearms on his knees, cigarette in hand, the smoke curling upward past his dark tanned face, Mannie sat staring down at the town.

Diving instructors were universally slim and fit, but Ray and Josep now had perfect mesomorph physiques, tanned to a golden sheen.

Having marshaled her young charges into the water until they were exhausted with their exercise, Moria stripped to allow the sun full access to her already tanned skin.

The face of the old mountebank did not whiten, but instead it grew stern and resolute, and the muscles came out in it so that it seemed a thing of cords under the tanned skin.

They were dressed in roughly tanned skins, and breeches of thick, coarse-woven cloth dyed the browns and greens and murreys that you can make with the mountain plants.

He or his dentist had obviously overdone the bleach job, and his artificially tanned face only made his teeth more prominent.

He could easily have been mistaken for a pastoralist or a grazier with his tanned complexion except that he was wearing khaki clothing.

Tim did not move, watching the woman who, in her cool green linen dress, was as unmoving as the recumbent figure beside her, her tanned skin taking on the tones from the shadows of the nave.

The face was lined around the jaw, reddened and tanned by wind, but not blurred or bloated, and one could still see the young officer.

Her bare tanned shoulders, her long legs and sandled feet moved slightly in the act of waiting.

Both men are naked, their bodies more sculpted and beautiful than the finest Greek statues, their uncircumcised penises dangling against their muscled and tanned thighs.