Meaning & use
Tan
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A brownish color of the skin produced by exposure to sunlight, or the light yellowish-brown color resembling it.
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She got a deep tan after two weeks at the beach.
He painted the fence a warm tan color.
A note on using this word
As a verb, "to tan" also means to convert animal hide into leather, the older sense from which the skin-color meaning later developed.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To convert animal hide into leather through a chemical treatment process.
Traditionally, the hides were tanned using tree bark.
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