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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pinto
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pinto bean
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At 22 inches and hoofprints the size of half- dollars, the full-grown bay pinto has appeared in several pet store commercials.
▪ Borlotti Bean Salad Serves 6 Borlotti beans look like dark-skinned pinto beans.
▪ This is all wrong, as chilli should really be made with pinto beans, a member of the kidney bean family.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pinto

Pinto \Pin"to\, a. [Sp., painted.] Lit., painted; hence, piebald; mottled; pied.

Pinto

Pinto \Pin"to\, n. Any pied animal; esp., a pied or ``painted'' horse.

Pinto

Pintos \Pin"tos\, n. pl.; sing. Pinto. [Sp., painted, mottled.] (Eyhnol.) A mountain tribe of Mexican Indians living near Acapulco. They are remarkable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. Called also speckled Indians.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pinto

1860, "a horse marked black and white," from American Spanish pinto, literally "painted, spotted," from Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *pinctus, variant of Latin pictus "painted," past participle of pingere "to paint" (see paint (v.)). Pinto bean is attested from 1916, so called for its markings.

Wiktionary
pinto

a. pied, mottled. n. (context zoology English) A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.

WordNet
pinto

n. a spotted or calico horse or pony

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Pinto

Pinto means "painted" or something similar in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, and also serves as a surname for people with links to those ethnicities. It can be also found among the Sephardi Jews descendants of the Jews expelled from Portugal that settled in Arab countries and the Netherlands. In England, the spelling was sometimes changed to Pinter.

In English, the word most commonly refers to either:

  • The Pinto horse, famous because it looks "painted", or
  • The Ford Pinto, named after the horse.

It may also be referring to:

Usage examples of "pinto".

After a futile attempt to convince Governor Pinto to come to their aid, they went to the Pousada de Macao where Spencer confronted the innkeeper.

So purty soon a man led the pinto out of his stall, and swung aboard him and rode off.

Next minute I heard a horse running, and glimpsed him tearing away through the bresh on a pinto mustang, setting his hoss like it was a red-hot stove, and dern him, he had my clothes in one hand!

Bewildered, Aldora regarded the thousands of horseswhites, grays, bays, chestnuts, sorrels, roans, claybanks and blacks with occasional pintos, piebalds and that flaxen-maned and tailed variety of golden-chestnut known as palomino.

Enlightenment under the Bo tree or the moral equivalent of a thousand mikes of acid, was enough of a spirit message to cause Amanda to brave the 101 in her cranky Pinto, and, ultimately, to park way west on La Colima and trudge on foot through the smoggy heat along the Sunset Strip all the way to Larrabee.

They gets the company fare of pinto beans and grits and cornmeal and either canned tomatoes or canned peaches.

In their lead rode a man on a pinto--and Buck Laramie knew that pinto.

Maria Pinto was the daughter of a government official at Manaos, and she was very beautiful.

The King favored the strong pinto ponies of the To-gai tribesmen of western Behren.

Astride their pinto ponies, short bows in hand, the To-gai-ru warriors stretched that line long and thin, just out of reach of the Jacintha archers.

Young McIntosh was a man to take seriously, and Lucinda knew that she could be happy with him, but there remained the memory of Levi Zendt and the prairies and prancing pintos, and rides through flowers, and she grew more and more perplexed.

Pinto between the towed Mercedes and a row of cars parked against the curb.

The cars looked on a level with the run-down area: an aging Pinto, oversized gas guzzlers that had seen better days, and a new Sentra with a rental sticker.

Goneagain, and Jellyroll, and Whistlestop, then Whoosh, Pinto, Dimples, Camel, and Crater.

The cars are the beater first cars kids drive in high school: Gremlins and Pacers, Mavericks and Hornets, Pintos, International Harvester pickup trucks, lowered Camaros and Dusters and Impalas.