pompion

• “Yes,' he said, 'the pompion is a good vegetable, and an excellent succedaneum to the cabbage, in the latter part of the winter.”

  Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59

• “in fact, comes from the old French pompion, meaning "cooked by the sun," or ripe.”

  NPR Topics: News

• “The fruit is either round like a pompion, or long.”

  History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing

• “Utterly unconvinced, yet politely obedient, the blond giant strode off across the road, picked up the great stone as though it were a pompion, turned it over, uttered an exclamation, and bore it back to us.”

  The Reckoning

• “Describing dates before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. pompion”

  History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6)

• “Communicating with the chimney was the great stone baking-oven, whence came the bouncing loaves of corn-bread, duly "brown," the rich-colored "pompion" pies, and the loin of venison, beef, or pork.”

  History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6)

• “The pea and vetch tribe, the pompion and cucumber, and various other plants, afford instances of provisions of these and similar kinds.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852

• “The greatest relief that we could find during twenty-nine days was the stalks of purselin, boiled in water, with now and then a pompion, or gourd, which we found in the garden of the old Indian, who, on this our second arrival, fled with his three sons, and kept himself continually aloft on the mountains.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08

• “Plimoth Plantation's recipes, including stewed pompion (pumpkin) or traditional Wampanoag succotash.”

  National Geographic News

• “Caliban’s lair was dark and moist and warm, hidden as it was amidst the old pipes and septic system beneath the city’s surface, the grotto warmed to tropical temperatures by biotic decay and populated with scuttling eft-things and pompion plants.”

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