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peppercorn
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Word definitions for peppercorn in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a peppercorn rent British English (= an extremely low rent ) ▪ The colonel let us have the cottage for a peppercorn rent. peppercorn rent COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE black ▪ Skim off any scum, then add six black ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground [syn: pepper ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In legal parlance, a peppercorn is a metaphor for a very small payment, a nominal consideration , used to satisfy the requirements for the creation of a legal contract . It featured in Chappell & Co Ltd v Nestle Co Ltd ([1960] AC 87), which stated that ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English, from pepper (n.) + corn (n.1).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The seeds of the plant ''Piper nigrum''. Commonly used as a spice, usually but not always ground or crushed. 2 A small, insignificant quantity; a nominal consideration used to satisfy the requirements for the creation of a legal contract.
Usage examples of peppercorn.
Combine the peppercorns, mustard seeds, sesame seeds, salt and the ancho chili in the food processor and pulverize.
French Style Roast Beaf 3 lb Boneless chuck or 1 tsp salt rolled rump roast 1 tsp thyme 6 whole cloves 5 peppercorns 1 bay leaf 1 lg clove, garlic 4 c water 4 med.
Some nights Umma spiced the fish with sea salt and cracked peppercorns, or cooked the eels with chopped garlic.
Cook together for ten minutes one cupful of vinegar, one tablespoonful of sugar, and six each of whole allspice, cloves, and peppercorns.
The sauce, which includes minced pork, bean sauce, ginger, fagara peppercorns, and scallions, has hardly been tampered with for 2,000 years.
Matthew caught the arrow in mid-flight, through the palm of his left hand, and the King gave him Canons Grange and the estate as a reward, at a peppercorn rent of one arrow every seventh year!
Martha, who was gathering Tellicherry peppercorns, orrisroot powder, bayberry bark, senna pods, lemon verbena and rosehips from her backyard for potpourri.
French Style Roast Beaf 3 lb Boneless chuck or 1 tsp salt rolled rump roast 1 tsp thyme 6 whole cloves 5 peppercorns 1 bay leaf 1 lg clove, garlic 4 c water 4 med.
They ate an enormous meal of roast lamb seasoned with salt and pink peppercorns from a wildly spreading tree on the east side of the Great House.
The little peppercorns of hair on his scalp were smoky-grey with age, but his teeth were startling white and perfect, and his eyes were black and sparkling.
But I found my legs would not function, and I stood in the path of the charge, groping stupidly for cartridges which were useless as thrown peppercorns against this grey mountain of flesh.
There were pickled oysters, cold venison, brook trout stuffed with walnuts and cornmeal and fried in butter, a massive ham studded with peppercorns, puree of squash, snowy mounds of rice, stewed corn, green beans in a rich cream sauce.
At each place there was a printed menu: Smoked whitefish on triangles of spoon bread with mustard broccoli coulis Black bean soup with conchiglie (pasta shells) Roast tenderloin of lamb in a crust of Pine nuts, mushrooms, and cardamom Pur‚e of Hubbard squash and leeks Pear chutney Crusty rolls Spinach and redleaf lettuce with ginger Vinaigrette and garnished with goat cheese Baked apples with peppercorn sauce Mildred said, "The menu is built around local products: lamb, whitefish, beans, squash, goat cheese, pears, and apples.
The free airs of open country, rich and invigorating as green-apple cider, rippled across acres of short-cropped grasses dotted with stands of peppercorns, bay trees, and flowering jacarandas whose piercingly blue blooms mocked the sky.
There are a lot of ways to make demi-glace, but I recommend you simply take your already reduced meat stock, add some red wine, toss in some shallots and fresh thyme and a bay leaf and peppercorns, and slowly, slowly simmer it and reduce it again until it coats a spoon.