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pintado|pɪnˈtɑːdəʊ|
Also 7 pinthado, payntatha, pentado, pintade, (pantado), 8–9 pintada.
[a. Pg. (and Sp.) pintado literally ‘painted’, also (in Pg.) a guinea-fowl, pa. pple. of pintar to paint:—late L. *pinctare, frequent. of pingere to paint, from late pa. pple. *pinct-us for pictus.]
†1. A kind of Eastern cotton cloth painted or printed in colours: chintz. Also attrib. Obs.
1602in Birdwood First Lett. Bk. E. Ind. Co. (1893) 34, 60 ffardells.. of blewes and checkered stuffes, some fine Pinthadoes. c1605Scot Disc. Java in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 165 About their loynes a faire Pintadoe. 1628World Encomp. by Sir F. Drake 90 With cloth of diuerse colours, not much vnlike our vsuall pentadoes. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 138 Upon the carpets were spread fine coloured pintado Table cloaths. 1665Evelyn Diary 30 Dec., I supped at my lady Mordaunt's..where was a roome hung with Pintado, full of figures..prettily representing sundry trades and occupations of the Indians. 1727W. Mather Yng. Man's Comp. 409 They Import..Cotton, Yarn, Callicoes, Pintadoes.
2. A species of petrel, Daption capensis, also called Cape Pigeon. Now pintado bird, pintado petrel.
1611in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 275 Sea-fowles, to wit Penguins, Guls, Pentados, which are spotted blacke and white. 1614Ibid. 528 Wee saw many Pintados, Mangareludas and other fowles. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 19 The Pantado birds (like Iayes in colours) who about these remote seas are ever flying. 1703W. Dampier Voy. III. i. 95 Pintado Birds, as big as Ducks. 1767Byron's Voy. round World in Hawkesworth's Voy. I. 9 Large flocks of pintadoes, which are somewhat larger than a pigeon, and spotted with black and white. 1844J. Tomlin Missionary Jrnls. 3 A few of the pintado birds, or Cape pigeons, joined us. 1894Pintado petrel [see petrel].
3. The Guinea-fowl.
1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isles 89 A kind of Pheasants, which are called Pintadoes, because they are as it were painted in colours. 1698Froger Voy. 10 The Island [Gorea] affords great variety of Game: Turtle-Doves, Pintades, Pigeons and Patridges. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. V. 192 The Pintada [ed. 1862 pintado] or Guinea-Hen:..in some measure unites the characteristics of the pheasant and the turkey. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) II. 249 The four species of Pintado hitherto known are all natives of Africa. 1824W. J. Burchell Trav. I. 364 The missionaries have a few domestic fowls, ducks, geese, and Guinea hens or Pintadoes.
4. ‘The West Indian mackerel, Scomberomorus regalis’ (Cent. Dict.). |