pintado

American  

[pin-tah-doh] / pɪnˈtɑ doʊ /

Also pintada

noun

plural

pintados, pintadoes

1. cero.

---

Etymology

Origin of pintado

1595–1605; < Portuguese, past participle of pintar to paint < Vulgar Latin *pinctus painted. See pinta

Example Sentences

Hoy, Waggoner está feliz de tener un trabajo nuevo - pero no logra reflejar el panorama pintado color de rosa de las últimas estadísticas económicas para el Condado de Miami-Dade.

From Washington Times • May 23, 2015

Of the pintado birds, our people, as I have before observed, caught no less than seven hundred in one night.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

From the middle downward they wear a pintado of silk, trailing upon the ground, in colour as they best like.

From Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World by Pretty, Francis

The third sort, which is the true pintado, or painted-bird, is curiously spotted white and black.

From A Voyage to New Holland by Dampier, William

Many hundreds of the white-rumped mhorr browsed on it undisturbed, and the pintado and the partridge seemed to be without end.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis