carbonadoed

Variant of carbonado

noun pl. carbonadoes or carbonados

  1. Archaic a piece of meat, often fish or fowl, scored and broiled
  2. Origin: Port, carbonized

    a type of tough industrial diamond consisting of a dark, opaque mass of diamond particles, used for drilling and as a semiconductor

Origin: Sp carbonada < carbón, charcoal < L carbo: see carbon

transitive verb carbonadoed, carbonadoing

  1. to score and broil (meat)
  2. to cut gashes in; slash; hack
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