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Baccalaos Hist. 
1 n. an early name for the region now comprising Newfoundland, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Labrador.
See also: baccalao
- 1555 (1869) The newe lande of Baccalaos is a coulde region, whose inhabitantes are Idolatours and praye to the sonne and moone and dyuers Idoles.
- 1869 Immediately after the discovery of the Baccalaos, which embraced Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Newfoundland, the fishermen of Normandy, Brittany, and the Basque Provinces, began to frequent the coasts to take cod.
- 1966 It was almost a decade before it was clearly demonstrated that there was no meeting of the waters anywhere within hundreds of leagues of Darien. Cortes suggested a search up the northeast coast towards Bacalaos (Newfoundland).
2 n. Atlantic codfishing grounds, especially the Grand Banks region.
- 1936 The fishermen manned their little craft, and set sail across the Atlantic, fighting contrary winds, skirting icebergs, and creeping through the fog-blanket to find the "baccalaos," the codfish seas of the new world.
- 1555 (1869) The newe lande of Baccalaos is a coulde region, whose inhabitantes are Idolatours and praye to the sonne and moone and dyuers Idoles.