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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Sone-brint, Sun-burnt, -burned, ppl. adj. [Late ME sunne y-brent (c1400), e.m.E. sunburned (c1500), sonne breent (c1530), sonne burnt (1553); Son(e n.¹ and Brint ppl. adj.] a. Of persons: Sunburnt. b. Of flowers: Parched and scorched by the sun. —a. a1500 Colk. Sow i 213.
Symy that was sone brint a1500 Peblis to Play 34.
I dar nocht cum ȝon mercat to I am so ewill sone brint 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 501.
I am comely as the tents of Kedar, howbeit I be black and sunburnt by sitting neighbour beside a body of sin —b. 1632 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 80.
In the same garden grow the saints, God's fair and beautiful lilies, under wind and rain and all sun-burned, and yet life remaineth at the root