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1. Baked by exposure to the sun, as bricks, pottery, etc.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Diary, 19 Aug. an. 1641. A kind of white sun-bak’d brick.
1888. E. Clodd, Story Creation, xi. 217. The sun-baked clay hut.
1897. Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 322. Fan pottery, although rough and sunbaked, is artistic in form.
2. Excessively heated by the sun; dried up, parched or hardened by the heat of the sun.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. [I.] xxviii. 88. When the Sun-bak’d Peasant goes to feast it with a Gentleman.
1841–4. Emerson, Ess., Art, Wks. (Bohn), I. 145. Let spouting fountains cool the air, Singing in the sun-baked square.
1891. Kipling, Light that Failed, xiii. 243. A sun-baked rose below nodded his head.
