Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Allspice, the berry of Pimenta officinalis (Eugenia Pimenta), a tree, native of the West Indies, but cultivated almost exclusively in Jamaica, whence called
Jamaica pepper . - noun The tree yielding this spice, a beautiful much-branching evergreen, 30 feet in height.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Allspice; -- applied both to the tree and its fruit. See
allspice . - noun same as
pimiento .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
red sweet pepper used to makerelish ,stuffed intoolives , or used asspice . - noun A
tropical berry used to makeallspice .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked
- noun plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But somewhere along the way, Texans, known for malapropisms and creative spellings, (heck, the name of the state is even a refashioning of a Caddoan word, Tejas, which means friends) took out the extra "i" and decided to call it pimento.
Archive 2007-02-01 Homesick Texan 2007
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But somewhere along the way, Texans, known for malapropisms and creative spellings, (heck, the name of the state is even a refashioning of a Caddoan word, Tejas, which means friends) took out the extra "i" and decided to call it pimento.
Pimento cheese, comfort served | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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-- The odoriferous principle of allspice, commonly called pimento, is obtained by distilling the dried fruit, before it is quite ripe, of the _Eugenia pimenta_ and _Myrtus pimenta_ with water.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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He had also abundance of cabbage, from the cabbage-palms, and seasoned his food with the fruit of the pimento, which is the same with
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However, I will note that when I checked the OED the first meaning of "pimento" was:
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Well, that may help explain why I've never been sure what "pimento" really meant other than the red thing stuffed into the middle of green olives; since I hate all olives except California lye-process black, I don't much care about the details of that usage.
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Wingate #711: Drifting a bit, ISTR that the "pimento" used to stuff olives and used variously in other canapes is in fact the same type of Capiscum which is dried for paprika.
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Suddenly I realized what those little bright bits in the soup must've been: pimento which is basically roasted red pepper.
childhood memory chicken soup Holly 2007
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If you want, you can add spreads such as pimento cheese to the display, she said.
unknown title 2009
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That's digging back in time sixty years but that kind of pimento cheese is the sort of gourmet treat you never forget.
unknown title 2009
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