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Word entry · 7 letters

pimento

Best crossword clue

"Sweet red pepper"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /pɪˈmɛntəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted eimnoptStarts with PEnds with O1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked

Word origin

Borrowed from Portuguese pimento (“bell pepper; later any pepper”), similar to Spanish pimiento, from Latin pigmentum (“coloring; colorful thing”), from pingo (“paint”) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimiento.

Used in a sentence

  • In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.

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