piment

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Elle veut renforcer son activité de vente de niébé, arachide, piment, poivre et cube maggi.

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  1. Wine with a mixture of spice or honey, once a favorite beverage. Also pigment. He sente hire pyment, meeth, and spiced ale. Chaucer, Miller's Tale, l. 192.

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  • For my main I order "Duck Confit and Heirloom Chicory Salad with a poached farm egg, bacon and piment d 'espellet" ($16). —  WordPress.com News
  • Elle veut renforcer son activité de vente de niébé, arachide, piment, poivre et cube maggi. —  Kiva Loans
  • Among the various kinds I can mention only the piment-café_, or "coffee-pepper," larger but about the same shape as a grain of Liberian coffee, violet-red at one end; the piment-zoučseau, or bird-pepper, small and long and scarlet;--and the piment-capresse_, very large, pointed at one end, and bag-shaped at the other. —  Two Years in the French West Indies
  • Lhč calalou-piment-lŕ té tchouitt, y pouend chaque zassiett yche-li; y metté calalou yo foučte dans zassiett-lŕ; y metté ta-mari foučte, assou, épi ta-y pi lhč calalou-lŕ té bien foučte, y metté farine nans chaque zassiett-lŕ. —  Two Years in the French West Indies
  • Y allé lacaill liautt macoumè, qui baill y yon grand trai piment. —  Two Years in the French West Indies
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  1. from Middle English piment, pyment, from Old French piment, from Middle Latin pigmentum, spiced wine, spice: see pigment.
 

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