reflection-burned

Updated: May 5, 2025

Into these we would occasionally descend to relieve our reflection-burned—or, as a Persian would say, “snow-burned”—faces, while the thermometer above stood at 120° in the shade. Over the level ninety-mile stretch between Kasveen and the capital a so-called carriage-road has recently been constructed close to the base of the mountain.

Thomas Gaskell Allen - Across Asia on a Bicycle