carbonado
1 Americannoun
noun
verb (used with object)
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to score and broil.
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Archaic. to slash; hack.
noun
verb
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to score and grill (meat, fish, etc)
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archaic to hack or slash
noun
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Etymology
Origin of carbonado1
1850–55; < Portuguese: carbonate
Origin of carbonado2
1580–90; < Spanish carbonada, equivalent to carbón charcoal ( see carbon) + -ada -ade 1
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The gem is a carbonado, which is one of the toughest forms of natural diamond.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2022
The gem is a carbonado, one of the toughest forms of natural diamond.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2022
Also known as a carbonado diamond, it is possible the black diamond came from outer space.
From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2022
Black diamonds, also known as carbonado, are extremely rare, and are found naturally only in Brazil and Central Africa.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2022
A massive gold ring, which carried a carbonado nearly as large as the stopper of a beer bottle, was embedded in a fat finger of his right hand.
From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
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 Henley, William Ernest
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 Motteux, Peter Anthony
A few embers, too, had been lighted, on which carbonadoes of venison were prepared.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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 Ainsworth, William Harrison
Celestian said most carbonados are about 2.6 to 3.2 billion years old.
From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2022
As Earth itself dates back to 4.65 billion years ago, carbonados were formed when Earth's plates were still moving and the oxygenation of the atmosphere was taking place, he said.
From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2022
You sigh for hidalgos, sombreros, carbonados, and carboncillos, why not combine business with pleasure?
From Much Darker Days by Lang, Andrew
How a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burden, and how she long'd to eat adders' heads and toads carbonadoed.
From The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare, William
Sir, it’s the same with most men that have been carbonadoed, as they call it, in the tropic seas.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Dr. Lupton's London and Country carbonadoed and quartered into Seuerall Characters, 1632.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Thus cutting the flesh of these animals into convenient pieces, or gobbets, they threw them into the fire and, half carbonadoed or roasted, they devoured them with incredible haste and appetite.
From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Haring, Clarence Henry
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