rare. [f. TAN a. + -LING1.] One tanned by the sun’s rays; a person of dark skin.
1611. Shaks., Cymb., IV. iv. 29. To be still hot Summers Tanlings, and The shrinking Slaues of Winter.
1830. Tennyson, Dualisms, Poems, 146. Mid May’s darling golden-locked Summer’s tanling diamond-eyed.
1877. Blackie, Wise Men, 41. Behind the march Of some barbarian tanling, cradled now Behind the Oscan hills.
