pintado
noun
cero.
pintadoes
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pluralof pintado.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Some tropic birds were seen this morning but as yet neither albatrosses nor pintadoes had made their appearance.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by King, Phillip Parker
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.
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 Harris, William Cornwallis
