rare. [f. TAN a. + -LING1.] One tanned by the sun’s rays; a person of dark skin.

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1611.  Shaks., Cymb., IV. iv. 29. To be still hot Summers Tanlings, and The shrinking Slaues of Winter.

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1830.  Tennyson, Dualisms, Poems, 146. Mid May’s darling golden-locked Summer’s tanling diamond-eyed.

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1877.  Blackie, Wise Men, 41. Behind the march Of some barbarian tanling, cradled now Behind the Oscan hills.

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