tan
/tæn/ sustantivo B2En español: bronce, tostado, bronceado, moreno
- A light, brown-like colour.
- A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources. · She still has a tan from her vacation in Mexico.· I'm hoping to get a tan this weekend at the beach.
- The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained. · Near-synonym: oakbark (contextually synonymous)
- Synonym of wall ball.
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A RICH MAN lived near a Tanner, and not being able to bear the unpleasant smell of the tan-yard, he pressed his neighbor to go away.
"When a gentleman of virile appearance enters my room with such tan upon his face as an English sun could never give, and with his handkerchief in his sleeve instead of in his pocket, it is not difficult to place him.
When we descended I followed Holmes into the stable yard, where he opened the door of a loose-box and led out a squat, lop-eared, white-and-tan dog, something between a beagle and a foxhound.
“They were tan boots and had never been varnished.
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