carbonado
1 synonym for carbonado, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Meat or fish cut with shallow slashes and then grilled.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
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Etymology
The noun is derived from Spanish carbonada (“carbonized”) (from carbonar (“to carbonize”)) + -ado (suffix forming past participles of regular verbs ending in -ar). Carbonada appears to have been modelled after Italian carbonata (“coal pile; stew of beef in red wine”), from carbone (“coal; charcoal”) (from Latin carbō (...
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