pimento

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The finer the pimento is ground the better.

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  1. noun See allspice.
  2. noun Variant of pimiento.

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  • They all sat uneasily at dinner under the bougainvillea and the swinging lanterns, wretchedly toying with the savoury mess of rice and pimento, artichoke and olive, heaped on the plates before them. —  Tour De Force - Christianna Brand - Cockrill 06: 1955
  • He fabricated clothing from the tropical grass and tropical cotton, found the uses of cassia, pimento, the dye woods, and the thousand other tropical products which contribute to comfort, necessity, and luxury; advancing human happiness, human progress, and human civilization. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
  • "You can find all of the usual seasonal vegetables and some of the unusual, including purple cauliflower, white egg plant, pimento, chili peppers and tomatillos." —  The Times-Journal: News
  • I ordered a case of Triple Mixed Olives ($8.50 per jar) which contains a combination of pimento-stuffed, garlic-stuffed and jalapeño-stuffed olives. —  Gazette.com :
  • He fabricated clothing from the tropical grass and tropical cotton, found the uses of cassia, pimento, the dye woods, and the thousand other tropical products which contribute to comfort, necessity, and luxury; advancing human happiness, human progress, and human civilization The black man's organization is radically different. —  The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest
 

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  1. Spanish pimiento, red or green pepper, pepper plant, from pimienta, black pepper, pepper fruit, from Late Latin pigmenta, pl. of pigmentum, vegetable juice, condiment, pigment, from Latin, pigment, from pingere, to paint; see peig- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also pimenta; from Spanish pimiento, the pepper-plant, capsicum, pimienta, the fruit of this plant, applied also to Pimenta officinalis, Jamaica pepper, = Portuguese pimento, pimenta = French piment, pepper (capsicum), from Middle Latin pigmentum, spice: see pigment.
 

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