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Pimento   Listen
noun
Pimento  n.  
1.
(Bot.) Allspice; applied both to the tree and its fruit. See Allspice.
2.
Same as pimiento.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pimento" Quotes from Famous Books



... spice, relish, appetizer. [Condiments] salt; mustard, grey poupon mustard; pepper, black pepper, white pepper, peppercorn, curry, sauce piquante [Fr.]; caviare, onion, garlic, pickle; achar^, allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper, green pepper; chutney; cubeb^, pimento. [capsicum peppers] capsicum, red pepper, chili peppers, cayenne. nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, oregano, cloves, fennel. [herbs] pot herbs, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, bay leaves, marjoram. [fragrant ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... Put the pimento, cheese and onion through the food-chopper and then add four tablespoons of salad dressing and use ...
— Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book - Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions • Mary A. Wilson

... executions also take place, the criminal being shot through the heart. M. Pereira's garden produces all that Porta da Lenha can grow, with less trouble and of a superior kind. Water-melons, tomatoes, onions, and pimento, or large pepper (pimentao, siliquastrum, ndungu ya yenene), useful to produce "crocodiles' tears;" mint, and parsley flourish remarkably; turnips are eatable after two months; cabbage and lettuce, beet, carrot, and endive after three or four. It is a waste of ground to plant peas; two rows, ...
— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... butter paste made of four tablespoons butter worked to a cream with three tablespoons flour. Season with one-half teaspoon salt and a few grains cayenne. Over butter paste sprinkle thickly-buttered cracker crumbs, and arrange alternately strips of pimento and thin slices of bacon over crumbs. Cover with a buttered paper and bake slowly one hour in a moderate oven. Remove paper the last fifteen minutes of cooking to brown the crumbs and bacon delicately. Remove to hot serving platter and garnish with shredded potatoes, ...
— Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners - A Book of Recipes • Elizabeth O. Hiller

... castle is embowered in a loose grove of palms and acacias, pimento shrubs, spendid star-apples, and bully-trees, with wild lemon, mahogany, dogwood, Jerusalem-thorn, and the waving plumes of bamboo canes. There is nothing British in it—nothing at all. It stands on brick pillars, is ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker



Words linked to "Pimento" :   Capsicum annuum grossum, sweet pepper plant, capsicum, pimento butter, pimento tree, pepper, pimiento, sweet pepper, bell pepper



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