carbonado
noun
a massive, black variety of diamond, found chiefly near São Salvador, Brazil, and formerly used for drilling and other cutting purposes.
carbonadoes
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pluralof carbonado.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A few embers, too, had been lighted, on which carbonadoes of venison were prepared.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
On the present occasion, there were carbonadoes of fish and fowl, a cold chine, a huge pasty, a capon, neat's tongues, sausages, botargos, and other matters as provocative of thirst as sufficing to the appetite.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
Three hundred years since Borrow would have been a gentleman adventurer: he would have dropped quietly down the river, and steered for the Spanish Main, bent upon making carbonadoes of your Don.
From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by William Ernest Henley
Then made they ready store of carbonadoes, or rashers on the coals, and good fat soups, or brewis with sippets; and the monk drank what he pleased.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux
