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  • noun Plural form of pimento.

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Examples

  • Memaw always used peeled russets, mustard, Miracle Whip (mayonaise just doesn't have the same tanginess), chopped sweet pickles (relish doesn't have the same crunch) a little pickle juice, and always some of that mornings bacon (crumbled up) with some of the drippings, along with a small jar of drained pimentoes and chopped hard boiled eggs.

    Texas potato salad, what is it? | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

  • Lesse if tehre is sum pimentoes for the peeps who tyed…

    u see teh arrow on mai hed? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Mom would add peas and pimentoes for color, or maybe serve it on a bed of spinach.

    Kachelmues Lindy 2006

  • On the farm there is perhaps a place where, for example, pimentoes, or tomatoes, or okra or onions are grown.

    Chapter 4 1976

  • Over the fillet mignon pour stuffed pimentoes, covered with a sauce made of fresh mushrooms, sauteed sec over which has been poured a little chateaubriand sauce.

    Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. Clarence E. Edwords

  • Season to taste and sauté in hot Simon Pure Lard until brown, and pour over the following sauce: Boil together for ten minutes one can of Armour's Veribest Tomato Soup, one half can of shredded pimentoes, one half can of button mushrooms; season with salt, paprika, butter and a small amount of onion juice.

    Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest Various

  • It was a sort of glorified tomato soup, made with a thick white sauce, containing chopped-up pimentoes and hard-boiled eggs, the mixture being served over toast.

    The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping 1924

  • Champagne, broiled lobster, crab meat, stuffed pimentoes, kirschkaffee -- everything I'd ever heard Beryl Blackburn tell about.

    In the Bishop's Carriage Miriam Michelson 1906

  • Champagne, broiled lobster, crab meat, stuffed pimentoes, kirschkaffee -- everything I'd ever heard Beryl Blackburn tell about.

    In The Bishop's Carriage. 1903

  • The baker's loaves, piled on planks, looked like little round paving stones; at the beggarly greengrocers 'merely a few pimentoes and fir-apples were shown under the strings of dry tomatoes which festooned the doorways; and the only shops which were at all attractive were those of the pork butchers with their salted provisions and their cheese, whose pungent smell slightly attenuated the pestilential reek of the gutters.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

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