单词 | pintado |
释义 | pintadon. 1. A fine cotton cloth painted or dyed with patterns of flowers, imported from India and used esp. for cupboard cloths, quilts, and curtains. Cf. chintz n. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > coloured, patterned, or printed > specific pintadoa1575 Salempore1598 chintz1614 nankeenc1700 caffa1701 jamwar1721 nankinett1794 purdah1813 zephyr1819 nankeening1830 calico1841 permanent1854 galatea1874 Madras gingham1880 Turkey red1880 Madras1897 shadow cretonne1932 shadow stripe1932 a1575 in R. H. Tawney & E. Power Tudor Econ. Documents (1924) III. 203 Yndews cobbard clothes called paintagos, and all other Indews wares. 1606 E. Scott Exact Disc. East Indians sig. N About their Loynes a faire Pintado. 1628 World Encompassed by Sir F. Drake 90 With cloth of diuerse colours, not much vnlike our vsuall pentadoes. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 138 Upon the carpets were spread fine coloured pintado Table cloaths. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1655 (1955) III. 425 I supped at My Lady Mordants..here was a roome hung with Pintado full of figures..pretily representing sundry Trades and occupations of the Indians. 1727 W. Mather Young Man's Compan. (ed. 13) 409 They Import..Cotton, Yarn, Callicoes, Pintadoes. 1928 Metrop. Museum Stud. 1 3/1 Very few examples of the early pintadoes survive today. 2005 M. Berg Luxury & Pleasure in 18th-cent. Britain ii. 71 Its [sc. the East India Company's] greatest successes were with chintzes, pintadoes, and striped calicoes. 2. The Cape petrel, Daption capense, a common seabird of southern oceans having black plumage with white markings. More fully † pintado bird, pintado petrel. Also called Cape pigeon. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Daptian pintado1611 hill pigeon1731 Cape pigeon1798 1611 in S. Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 275 Sea-fowles, to wit Penguins, Guls, Pentados, which are spotted blacke and white. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 19 Pantado Birds (so called from their Colours) flying about them. 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland iii. 95 Pintado Birds, as big as Ducks. 1767 Byron's Voy. round World in Hawkesworth's Voy. I. 9 Large flocks of pintadoes, which are somewhat larger than a pigeon, and spotted with black and white. 1844 J. Tomlin Missionary Jrnls. 3 A few of the pintado birds, or Cape pigeons, joined us. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 710 The Cape-Pigeon or Pintado Petrel, Daption capensis, is one that has long been well known. 1989 B. Stonehouse Polar Ecol. (BNC) 153 Several species of petrels including..mottled pintado petrels..breed in cavities on scree slopes and under rocks. 2001 Birds Summer 112/1 So the bird we are supposed today to call a cape petrel is known in the literature variously as pintado, pied petrel and cape pigeon as well as cape petrel. 3. A guineafowl. Now chiefly (in French form pintade) as an article of food. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > family Numididae > member of (guinea-fowl) guinea-hen1599 Guinea1620 turkey1655 pintado1666 chequer-bird1745 tamis-bird1774 guinea fowl1788 Guinea bird1792 galeeny1796 come-back1811 tarentaal1827 tompot1891 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 89 A kind of Pheasants, which are called Pintadoes, because they are as it were painted in colours. 1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 10 The Island [sc. Gorea] affords great variety of Game: Turtle-Doves, Pintades, Pigeons and Patridges. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 192 The Pintada [1862 pintado] or Guinea-Hen:..in some measure unites the characteristics of the pheasant and the turkey. 1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) II. 249 The four species of Pintado hitherto known are all natives of Africa. 1857 Porter's Spirit of Times 3 Jan. 294/2 See how those ducks will ‘shell out’ pretty decent eggs (where those of the hen or pintado are not to be had). 1949 K. M. Wells By Moonstone Creek ix. 200 Delivering three of our ducks to a friend who had offered us in exchange six pintadas, three pair of guinea fowl. 1992 Gourmet Feb. 124/1 Other pleasures included..roast pintade (guinea fowl) with sage and green olives. 4. Any of several spotted fishes of the tropical western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico; esp. the cero, Scomberomorus regalis, a popular game fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > member of Scomberomorus (Spanish mackerel) kingfish1775 Spanish mackerel1832 pintado1874 king mackerel1879 cero1884 sierra1889 katonkel1893 speckled hound-fish- 1874 F. Keller Amazon & Madeira Rivers p. xiii/2 The largest of the victims that fell to our Mojos is the spotted surubim or pintado, a species of siluris. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pintado,..3. The West Indian mackerel, Scomberomorus regalis. 1976 T. Tryckare Lore of Sportfishing 122 Scomberomorus regalis... Pintada... Dark blue-green above shading to silver below. 1990 Nature Conservancy Sept. 8/2 The fish migrations begin, with such commercially important species as the pintado, jurupoca, dourado, and pacu seeking out both newly formed and permanent lakes. 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