sun bath

English

Noun

sun bath (plural sun baths)

1. Alternative form of sunbath
   • 1912, The Progressive Woman:

     Every large hospital now has quarters where patients may take the healing sun bath at certain times of the day. You can take your sun bath in the same manner as the air bath.

   • 2014, Don Pendleton, Monday's Mob:

     He was taking a sun bath, stripped to the waist and sprawling on a claybank in the open, staring into the western sky with a hand shading his eyes.

   • 2015, Paul Collins, Banvard's Folly:

     The cures produced are ascribable to two causes: first, to the healthy influence of the sun bath, and secondly, to the very powerful influence of the patient's imagination.