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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Forbes Watson classifies the calicoes as being white, bleached and unbleached, striped, &c., printed chintzes, or pintadoes.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
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 Jules Verne
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 James Cook
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 Phillip Parker King
