pintado
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Origin of pintado
1595–1605; < Portuguese, past participle of pintar to paint < Vulgar Latin *pinctus painted. See pinta
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The cape petrel, or pintado bird; the small blue one, which is always seen at sea, and the small black one, or Mother Carey's chicken, are not here in great numbers.
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 Kerr, Robert
The last pintado left us 240 miles within the tropics to follow an outward-bound vessel.
Excessive number of birds about a dead whale; of the pintado bird, and the petrel, etc.
From A Voyage to New Holland by Dampier, William
This partridge attains the size of the pintado.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
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.
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 Verne, Jules
Forbes Watson classifies the calicoes as being white, bleached and unbleached, striped, &c., printed chintzes, or pintadoes.
From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
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 Cook, James
He believes that in the South there are many more pintados, whose disease has been wrongly diagnosed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Also penguins, gulls, pintados spotted with black and white, alcatrasses, which are grey with black pinions, shags or cormorants at the island in great abundance, and another like a moor-hen.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Cassedys nill, alleias, broad pintados, with spotted, striped, and checquered stuffs, are most in request, and sell at good profit.
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
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