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  • noun pimento

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Examples

  • I've always seen "pimenta" on the spice bottles, and the W'pedia article has a footnote which explains that "pimento" is properly used for the capsicum pepper.

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • If you want pepper, ask the waiters for "pimenta"; you will probably be served a whole tray of condiments.

    Rio De Janeiro 2007

  • Que é válido utilizar sprays de pimenta e bombas de efeito moral como instrumentos políticos?

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: The country’s largest university becomes a battlefield 2009

  • Na tentativa de conversar com o comandante da unidade de choque, o despreparo, má formação e autoritarismo de PMs na ação, levaram a me agredir com gás de pimenta, de maneira gratuita, violenta e sem nenhuma necessidade.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: The country’s largest university becomes a battlefield 2009

  • Allspice is a spice, AKA pimenta and several other things.

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • I would apply the word foodie to anyone who can enjoy a slice of Jicama with limon and pimenta or well made tacos or carne en su jugo or any number of simple or complex foods.

    Manuel�s Restaurant 2007

  • I would apply the word foodie to anyone who can enjoy a slice of Jicama with limon and pimenta or well made tacos or carne en su jugo or any number of simple or complex foods.

    Manuel�s Restaurant 2007

  • I would apply the word foodie to anyone who can enjoy a slice of Jicama with limon and pimenta or well made tacos or carne en su jugo or any number of simple or complex foods.

    Manuel�s Restaurant 2007

  • If I make it through the jungle, the brush, the pimenta forest and the swamplands the total length should be about 2 miles.

    2nd part of the last post (March2) 2009

  • I would apply the word foodie to anyone who can enjoy a slice of Jicama with limon and pimenta or well made tacos or carne en su jugo or any number of simple or complex foods.

    Manuel�s Restaurant 2007

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