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 Carbineer’Carbona’ri 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Carbona’do.
 
A chop; mince meat. Strictly speaking, a carbonado is a piece of meat cut crosswise for the gridiron. (Latin, carbo, a coal.)   1
        “If he do come in my way, so; if he do not—if I come in his willingly, let him make a carbonado of me.”—Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., v. 3.
 


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