Also 6–9 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.

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1599.  Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 61. Cornish pilchards, otherwise called Fumados.

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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.

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1602.  Carew, Cornwall, 33 a.

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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.

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c. 1682.  J. Collins, Making of Salt, 105. This sort [of salted Herrings] are commonly called Fumathos.

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1859.  Walcott, Guide Devon & Cornw., 525. Pilchards, which elsewhere are known as ‘Fair maids,’ are here called Fumados.

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