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baccalao n also bacalao, baccale, bacaleau, baccalo, etc. OED
bacalao (Nfld: 1555-), O Sup2 bacalao (1749-), DC ~ n 1
(1555-), DJE baccalow (1889-1956) for sense 1; DC Baccalaos n 1 (1555-) for
sense 2; SEARY 171-2 'from Span. bacallao—cod-fish, though early navigators
thought it was of native Indian origin.'
1 Cod-fish, esp
dried and salted cod; FISH.
[c1504) 1971 SEARY 171 Y dos
bacalhas.] [(1558) 1962 The Cabot Voyages 275 ... a kind of fish which is found in
the adjacent sea, which fish [the French] name Baccales.] [1622] PURCHAS xix, 300
Especially there is a great store of those fishes which they call commonly Bacallaos.
[1765] 1954 INNIS 151 Of late years the consume of Newfoundland dry'd cod fish called
Baccalao has [been] greatly lessened in this province (Catalina) by the fisheries of the
same kind of fish that are at present carried on with success on the coast of Norway and
at Knall in Russia. [1779] 1792 CARTWRIGHT ii, 497 The ship has now on board seven
hundred and fifty-eight tierces of salmon, and five hundred and thirty-four quintals of
bacaleau, or dried codfish. [1841] 1855 Lit & Hist Soc Que iv, 30 In the
annals of the town of Dieppe, in France, there is authentic evidence to show, that the
inhabitants of that town did carry on Baccalo fisheries, on the coast of Newfoundland and
before the year 1500.
2 In pl, name given to Newfoundland
and adjacent regions by early European voyagers.
[(1530) 1962
The Cabot Voyages 269 [tr] ... the Bacchalaos discovered by Cabot from England
sixteen years ago.] [1555] ibid 277 These regions are cauled Terra Florida and Regio
Baccalearum or Bacchallaos of the which yow may reade sumwhat in this booke in the vyage
of the woorthy owlde man yet lyving Sebastiane Cabote. [1576] 1940 Gilbert's Voyages
& Enterprises i, 143 So that this Currant, being continually mainteined with such
force, as Jacques Cartier affirmeth it to be, who mette with the same being at Baccalaos,
as he sailed alongst the coastes of America. [1583] ibid ii, 404 [Hayes' narrative] That
which we doe call the Newfound land, and the Frenchmen Bacalaos, is an Iland. 1672
[BLOME] 190 About this Banck lyes dispersed several smalle Isles, called by ...
Sebastian Cabot (the first discoverer) Los Baccaloos, or the Isles of
Cod-fish. 1832 MCGREGOR i, 151 Cabot, by the most undoubted authority, discovered
and landed on the coast several years before, took possession of this island, which he
named Baccalaos. 1895 PROWSE 23 Foreigners called these countries [The Newe-founde-lande]
by the generic name of the 'Baccalaos'—the land of dried-cod-fish.
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