The word 'suntan' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the darkening of the skin due to exposure to the sun. Example: After spending a week at the beach, I came back with a deep suntan.
Optimists go outside and get a suntan, but pessimists stay indoors and avoid getting cancer.
She once even made suntan lotion out of soap and vinegar – very unsafe... It's funny, but I'm exactly the same as my nan when it comes to soap and shampoo.
This one wheeled a suitcase full of suntan cream, racy novels and clothes designed only for lounging on palm-shaded shores.
is about as convincing as an anchorman's suntan.
Packing your beach towel and suntan lotion will not, by itself, make you Hemingway.
Some suntan oils smell of coconut, so the scent is supposed to remind people of past holidays.
He poured on charm as thick as suntan lotion.
They don't mind the BMWs, the Volkswagens and Miele dishwashers, but they are not much interested in the high culture so important to the German middle classes.Moreover, the cheaper flights get, the easier it is to travel south for a suntan.
Desjardins was nicknamed "the Little Bronze Statue" (or "the Little Bronze Statue from the Land of Real Estate, Grapefruit, and Alligators") for his height and year-round suntan; his family moved to Florida from Canada in 1917.
The backless evening dresses of the 1920s and '30s required a suntan to display and in cut were practically bathing costumes with skirts.
Like so many Inside No. 9 characters she's a ticking time bomb, alongside her alcoholic sister who's sneaking booze from a suntan lotion bottle and her tiresome prankster brother-in-law Pat.
