TANNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tanned mean? 

• TANNED (adjective)
  The adjective TANNED has 2 senses:

1. (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun

2. converted to leather by a tanning agent

  Familiarity information: TANNED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TANNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun

Synonyms:

bronzed; suntanned; tanned

Context example:

a young bronzed Apollo

Similar:

brunet; brunette (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Converted to leather by a tanning agent

Antonym:

untanned (not converted to leather by a tanning agent)

 Context examples 

Their bodies were covered with fur and soft-tanned leather.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But Julia keeps no diary in these days; never sings Affection's Dirge; eternally quarrels with the old Scotch Croesus, who is a sort of yellow bear with a tanned hide.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His shaven face was as brown as a hazel-nut, tanned and dried by the weather, with harsh, well-marked features, which were not improved by a long white scar which stretched from the corner of his left nostril to the angle of the jaw.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However little Mr. Darcy might have liked such an address, he contented himself with coolly replying that he perceived no other alteration than her being rather tanned, no miraculous consequence of travelling in the summer.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And when the last cup of flour was gone and the last rind of bacon, she was able to rise to the occasion, and of moccasins and the softer-tanned bits of leather in the outfit to make a grub-stake substitute that somehow held a man's soul in his body and enabled him to stagger on.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Smooth-shaven, every line was distinct, and it was cut as clear and sharp as a cameo; while sea and sun had tanned the naturally fair skin to a dark bronze which bespoke struggle and battle and added both to his savagery and his beauty.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To such extremity were the gods driven that they ate the soft-tanned leather of their mocassins and mittens, while the dogs ate the harnesses off their backs and the very whip-lashes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His face, however, was tanned of a dull yellow tint, with a leathery, poreless look, which spoke of rough outdoor doings, and the little pointed beard which he wore, in deference to the prevailing fashion, was streaked and shot with gray.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His tanned skin was drawn attractively tight on his face and his short hair looked as though it were trimmed every day.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

When he came down the steps at last the tanned skin was drawn unusually tight on his face, and his eyes were bright and tired.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)