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Peppercorn

noun
1.
Pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground.  Synonym: pepper.



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"Peppercorn" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the Governor of Mocha, Middleton proceeded to make unceremonious levy on all the shipping he could lay his hands upon. On August 16th the Trade's Increase set sail, in company with the Peppercorn, for Tiku, where two others of the company's ships were anchored. Middleton very soon discovered that the Trade's Increase was in a leaky condition; he had hardly got her out of Tiku when she ran aground—for the second time in her brief history. She was floated and brought opposite ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various
... symptoms. She lost her gay spirits, grew dumpish and morose, stuck up her feathers in a bristling way, and pecked at her neighbours if they did so much as look at her. Master Gray Cock was greatly concerned, and went to old Dr. Peppercorn, who looked solemn, and recommended an infusion of angle-worms, and said he would look in on the patient twice a ...
— Queer Little Folks • Harriet Beecher Stowe


Words linked to "Peppercorn" :   seasoning, flavorer, seasoner, flavourer, Piper nigrum, flavouring, common pepper, white pepper, black pepper, flavoring, Madagascar pepper


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