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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pepper-pot

1838, from pepper (n.) + pot (n.1).

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pepper-pot

n. (alternative form of pepper pot English) vb. (context UK NZ English) To intersperse privately-owned houses and social housing.

Usage examples of "pepper-pot".

Miss Violette Shumberger names twelve dozen cherry-stone clams as the second course, and Joel Duffle says two gallons of Philadelphia pepper-pot soup as the third.

His eyes ran over the selection of condiments which had come with it, and almost absent-mindedly he dropped the pepper-pot into his pocket.