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Answer for the clue "Pepper pot: mine needs to be shaken ", 7 letters:
pimento

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Word definitions for pimento in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, pimiento (modern form from 1718), from Spanish pimiento "green or red pepper," also pimienta "black pepper," from Late Latin pigmenta , plural of pigmentum "vegetable juice," from Latin pigmentum "pigment" (see pigment (n.)). So called because it ...

Usage examples of pimento.

Press Secretary Pimento was finally forced to read the summaries aloud to Marlon each day while he was having his press conference makeup applied.

Pimento down and told him what was going on, and Pimento started cracking up.

He had to handle this delicately, get Marlon to dismiss Pimento on ostensible grounds.

In desperation, Escrow looked around and saw Pimento eating a peanut butter cup at the watercooler, and he gave him a shot at a one-paragraph press release.

Tallahassee twist that had everyone crying foul, Pimento rapidly rose to the top of his department based on ability.

Escrow, Pimento and Birch tried to separate them, and one by one their arms got caught in the rolling bodies and they were sucked into the maw of state power.

He ordered Escrow and Pimento not to let anyone disturb him, and the two stood outside the door, snarling at each other.

The phone was already ringing, and Pimento screened the calls and faxes.

East Tallahassee High School, Escrow and Pimento thought they had their man turned around.

Marlon was standing next to Pimento as he tried to jimmy the lock on the back door of the state archives.

Marlon and Pimento stood on the caboose-red porch wrapped around the lamp, taking pictures of the ocean and the inlet.

Jenny in 1604, Elizabeth in 1605, Marlon in 1606, and Escrow and Pimento fighting over the remote control in their pajamas in 1607.

Babs entertaining Pimento with a sock on each hand, cocking her head side to side as a different character spoke.

Coppola ordered an espresso at a lunch window, and Pimento joined him.

He pulled a second camera from a shoulder bag and handed it to Pimento, and they both began filming Marlon from artsy angles.