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  • s  tanned and coarsened from being outdoors
    a weather-beaten face
  • s  worn by exposure to the weather

  • She contrives to look as weather-beaten as her front door and to act tough-minded without being closed-minded.
  • His weather-beaten face, his thick, black mustache and the tan bandolier draped across his chest give him the look of an Arabic Pancho Villa.
  • There are also several ads for premier banking services, a weather-beaten, 1970s-era hotel offering rooms at $600 a night and a billboard hawking a new model Peugeot ($40,000 .
News & Articles

  • Doc Talk: Protect against premature aging with sun protection, skin care
    Nothing gives away your age faster than wrinkles, age spots and leathery skin. Looking weather-beaten or older than you are can impact your self-esteem and the way you approach life. But, you can delay the appearance of aging by taking simple precautions.
    June 11, 2013 - The Wichita Eagle
  • Indiana town at odds over Virgin Mary statues
    Catholics who attended Mass on Sunday, likely said a Hail Mary or two in honor of the mother of Jesus Christ. In fact, there are statues dedicated to the Virgin Mary all over Greater Chicago. Some are old and some are new, and two of them – a weather-beaten marble Mary and a newer one made out of metal – are caught in a tense drama in the little town of St. John, Indiana. “When we used to come ...
    June 10, 2013 - WBEZ 91.5 Chicago
Quotes

  • Joe Glenn in Red Menace
    I've just come to the realization that I'm coaching at 72 degrees the rest of my career,joked Glenn. "No more wind on this weather-beaten old face." "But seriously, a year ago when we were forced inside (in War Memorial Fieldhouse),...
  • David Broder in Town Hall
    They decided to treat the delegates and a national television audience to speeches by three of the most familiar and weather-beaten figures in American politics,Broder wrote, namely President Bush, Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman.
  • Jonathan Glancey in The Guardian
    In remote, weather-beaten places,Glancey says, "pebbledash is both stylish and sensible."

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