What is "parches"

Usage examples of "parches".

If the sun beats down upon your heads and parches your throats, it will beat down on the enemy twice as hard, driving the moisture from his body.

Welstiel had also taken time to dress carefully, appearing ex-actly as he had on his first visit, with a black cap covering the white parches at his temples.

She who parches beneath the desert sun desires above all to behold an oasis.