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sunburn Noun painful reddening of the skin caused by overexposure to the sun sunburnt
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For pallor and duskiness of complexion are called qualities, inasmuch as we are said to be such and such in virtue of them, not only if they originate in natural constitution, but also if they come about through long disease or sunburn, and are difficult to remove, or indeed remain throughout life. The sunburn of my face, what little of it could be seen through a scraggly growth of beard, had faded to a sickly yellow. "I am not afraid," the sailor retorted, a slight angry flush rising through his sunburn. |
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