Lexicographical Neighbors of Pintadoes
Literary usage of Pintadoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyages of Captain James Cook: Illustrated with Maps and Numerous by James Cook (1842)
"... in every respect shaped like the pintadoes, differing only from them in colour.
... But time common pintadoes had quite disap.. peared, as well as many ..."
2. Sailings Over the Globe; Or, The Progress of Maritime Discovery (1855)
"In every respect they were shaped like the pintadoes, differing from them ...
But the common pintadoes had quite disappeared, as well as many other sorts, ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... pintadoes. The eighteenth, the Hollanders of the two least shippes, came to
visite me, and supped with me: but an Englishman reporteth, that they meane ..."
4. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in by Robert Kerr (1824)
"But the common pintadoes had quite disappeared, as well as many other sorts,
which are common in lower latitudes. SECTION III. Sequel of the Search for a ..."
5. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"... KINGS MAIESTIE of ENGLAND, with a fayre standing Cuppe, and a cover double
gilt, with divers of the choicest pintadoes. which hoe kindly accepted of. ..."
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