pintado
Americannoun
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pintados,
plural
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pintadoes
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pintado
1595–1605; < Portuguese, past participle of pintar to paint < Vulgar Latin *pinctus painted. See pinta
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The pintado is a southern bird, and of that temperate zone; for I never saw of them much to the northward of 30 degrees south.
From A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
The albatross, stormy petrel, and pintado are our companions; yet there is a pleasure in stemming the apparently irresistible waves, and in wrestling thus with the elements.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham
The third sort, which is the true pintado, or painted-bird, is curiously spotted white and black.
From A Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
In the afternoon, our old companions the pintado peterels began to appear.
From A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2 by James Cook
They wear turbans on their heads, the upper parts of their bodies being naked; but, from the waist downwards, they have a pintado, or a silken wrapper, trailing on the ground.
There were few mountains, and only such hills as were enough to form the ravines and pools where the pintadoes and snipes went sailing and diving through.
From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
Some tropic birds were seen this morning but as yet neither albatrosses nor pintadoes had made their appearance.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King
The 26th of April we got into the trade wind; and on the 10th May, being by estimation 620 leagues west of the Cape of Good Hope, we saw many pintadoes, mangareludas, and other fowls.
From the lat. of 40° to 30° 38' both S. we frequently saw great shoals of seals and penguins, which were always attended by flocks of pintadoes, birds about the size of pigeons.
These were interspersed with rich yellow grass, swarming with antelope, hares, bustard, and florikin; whilst fine cedar-like camel-thorns stretched their long arms over troops of pintadoes, coveys of partridges, and spur-fowl.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
He believes that in the South there are many more pintados, whose disease has been wrongly diagnosed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vast numbers of pintados were about, also some albatrosses, the first that had made their appearance for several weeks back.
On land, great numbers of grey parrots, and abundance of pintados or Guinea fowls, which are very hurtful to their rice crops.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
We found abundance of green figs, fine oranges and lemons, plenty of goats and hogs, and numbers of partridges, pintados, and other wild fowls.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
Cassedys nill, alleias, broad pintados, with spotted, striped, and checquered stuffs, are most in request, and sell at good profit.
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