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noun

Carbonado, Carbonade n. (Cookery) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. (Obs.)

Carbonado n. (pl. carbonadoes) (Min.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.

verb

Carbonade, Carbonado v. t. (past & past part. carbonadoed; pres. part. carbonadoing)

To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. (Obs.) "A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed."

To cut or hack, as in fighting. (Obs.) "I'll so carbonado your shanks."

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Etymology of 'Carbonado'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Carbonado" Quotes from Famous Books

... a few of the rubies and sapphires the next morning but they gathered more of the diamonds, looking in particular for the gray-black and ugly but very hard and tough carbonado variety. Then they resumed their ...

— Space Prison • Tom Godwin

... Mascarenhas might have taught you better," said he, "than to play this game." And then added with a grim smile, "But we'll see if an Englishman will not make as good a carbonado as ...

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