Obs. Also 7 carbinado, charbonado. [ad. Sp. carbonada ‘a Carbonado on the coles’ (Minsheu) = It. carbonata, F. carbonade (Cotgrave); see -ADO.] A piece of fish, flesh, or fowl, scored across and grilled or broiled upon the coals. Often transf.
1586. Marlowe, 1st Pt. Tamburl., IV. iv. 47. I will make thee slice the brawns of thy arms into carbonadoes and eat them.
1591. Lyly, Sapho, II. iii. 175. If I venture … to eate a rasher on the coales, a carbonado.
1607. Shaks., Cor., IV. v. 199. He scotcht him, and notcht him like a carbinado.
1651. Markham, Eng. Housew., 70. Charbonadoes.
1656. Heylin, Surv. France, 72. A suit of Turkie grogram doubled with Taffeta, cut with long slashes, or carbonado’s, after the French fashion.
1656. H. More, Antid. Ath., III. iii. They made goodly Carbonado’s of Witches.
1687. B. Randolph, Archipel., 19. His Buttocks were like unto Carbonados.
