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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It was a plentiful repast, and included roast pintado and cabbage-palm.
From Foul Play by Charles Reade
Of the pintado birds, our people, as I have before observed, caught no less than seven hundred in one night.
The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q by Project Gutenberg
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
At this time, we were in the latitude of 28° 6' S., and our longitude was 198° 23' E. Here we saw some pintado birds, being the first since we left the land.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
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.
We daily saw some rock-weeds, seals, Port Egmont hens, albatrosses, pintadoes, and other peterels.
From A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 by James Cook
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
Forbes Watson classifies the calicoes as being white, bleached and unbleached, striped, &c., printed chintzes, or pintadoes.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
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.
He believes that in the South there are many more pintados, whose disease has been wrongly diagnosed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ascending the valley's opposite wall, we found the remains of primaeval forests,—little glades which had escaped the axe,— they resounded with the cries of pintados and cynocephali.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
Vast numbers of pintados were about, also some albatrosses, the first that had made their appearance for several weeks back.
Cassedys nill, alleias, broad pintados, with spotted, striped, and checquered stuffs, are most in request, and sell at good profit.
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