Also 69 fumado, (7 fumatho). Also corruptly FAIR-MAID. [app. ad. Sp. fumado pple., smoked; the spelling fumatho seems to indicate retention of the original pronunciation.] A smoked pilchard.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 61. Cornish pilchards, otherwise called Fumados.
c. 1600. Norden, Spec. Brit., Cornw. (1728), 23. The dryed ware they carrye into Spayne, Italie, Venice, and diuers places within the Straytes, wher they are very vendible; and in those partes tooke name Fumados, for that they are dryed in the smoake.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 33 a.
1661. Fuller, Worthies, Cornwall, I. (1662), 194. Then (by the name of Fumadoes,) with Oyle and a Lemon, they [Pilchards] are meat for the mightiest Don in Spain.
c. 1682. J. Collins, Making of Salt, 105. This sort [of salted Herrings] are commonly called Fumathos.
1859. Walcott, Guide Devon & Cornw., 525. Pilchards, which elsewhere are known as Fair maids, are here called Fumados.