tanling
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tanling (plural tanlings)
- (archaic, especially of children) One who has been tanned by the sun.
- a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 4, scene 4:
- To have the courtesy your cradle promised, / But to be still hot Summer's tanlings, and / The shrinking slaves of Winter.
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- “tanling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.