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Carbonado

noun
1.
An inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing.  Synonym: black diamond.
2.
A piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled.






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"Carbonado" Quotes from Famous Books



... city with hand-granado, Or the generall with a bastonado, - But no way for a Rump like a carbonado, ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay

... 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 ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... Cabbage and Potatoes Cabbage with Sausages Cabbages, Harlequin Cake, Mocha Calf's Liver a la Bourgeoise Carbonade, Flemish Carbonade of Flanders Carbonades done with Beer Carrots, Belgian " Brussels " Flemish " Stuffed Carrots and Eggs Cauliflower a la Reine Elizabeth Cauliflower and Shrimps Cauliflower, Dressed " Stuffed Celeris au Lard Cheese Fondants Cheese Limpens Cherry and Strawberry Compote ...
— The Belgian Cookbook • various various

... 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

... who had been buried several days and their eating "one another boyled, and stewed with rootes and herbes," the account of the man who "did kill his wife, powdered her, and had eaten part of her before it was known," and adding with a grim humour, "now whether shee was better roasted, boyled or carbonado'd, I know not, but of such a dish as powdered wife, I never heard of." His statements are copied, with more or less variation, by Beverley, Stith, Keith and Burke, but not one of them go into the disgusting and improbable details named in ...
— Colonial Records of Virginia • Various



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