pintado

plural pintados · plural pintadoes

1. archaiccountablehistoricaluncountableA fine cotton cloth; chintz.First known use 16th c.

   a pintado quilt

2. countableuncountableThe Cape petrel, Daption capense.First known use 17th c.

   We now bore away SSE, SE & SEBS as the ice trended, keeping close by the edge of it, where we saw many penguins and whales and many of the ice birds, small grey birds and pintadoes.

   1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 14 December

3. countableuncountableA guinea fowl, especially as food.First known use 17th c.
4. countableuncountableAny of various spotted fishes in tropical waters of the west Atlantic, especially the cero, Scomberomorus regalis.First known use 19th c.

plural Pintados

1. A surname.

plural Pintados · plural Pintadoes

1. historicalA member of the tattooed indigenous people of Cebu during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines.