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  • adjective (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke

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Examples

  • Yes, Sumasai had several hidden ashore, in good condition, sun-dried, and smoke-cured.

    THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS 2010

  • After the Fishing, Gnob and his people, with great store of salmon, sun-dried and smoke-cured, departed for the

    KEESH, SON OF KEESH 2010

  • Also, one gruesome vision he caught of his own head, sun-dried and smoke-cured, ornamenting the canoe house of a cannibal village.

    Chapter 2 2010

  • The tender tips of the fallen palms were likewise eaten, while the thousands of coconuts were husked and split and sun-dried and smoke-cured into copra to be sold to the next passing trader.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • Other heads, thoroughly sun-dried and smoke-cured, were found in abundance, but, with two exceptions, they were the heads of blacks.

    Chapter 25 2010

  • Meats such as bacon and ham are still sometimes salt-cured and sometimes are both salt-cured and smoke-cured, smoke being another “natural” preservative.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Meats such as bacon and ham are still sometimes salt-cured and sometimes are both salt-cured and smoke-cured, smoke being another “natural” preservative.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Meats such as bacon and ham are still sometimes salt-cured and sometimes are both salt-cured and smoke-cured, smoke being another “natural” preservative.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Meats such as bacon and ham are still sometimes salt-cured and sometimes are both salt-cured and smoke-cured, smoke being another “natural” preservative.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • A chunk of lard tied in paper dark with grease, a brown piece of smoke-cured hog neckbone, some parched corn, about a cup of soup beans twisted in a square of paper, a leek and a turnip and three carrots, a bar of lye soap.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

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