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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
peppercorn
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a peppercorn rentBritish 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 peppercorns.
white
▪ The resulting white peppercorn is then dried.
■ NOUN
rent
▪ Fortunately the ground comes cheap, leased from the patron Lord Camrose on a peppercorn rent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add peppercorns, bay leaf, juniper berries, and wine, cover partially, and simmer for 10 minutes.
▪ Black peppercorns are the mature berries that are dried and have the most potent flavors.
▪ Gaperon is rounded in shape and made from skimmed milk or buttermilk and often flavoured with garlic or peppercorns.
▪ Plain mixed peppercorns make an excellent flavouring for venison.
▪ Remove from heat and add peppercorns and parsley.
▪ Skim off any scum, then add six black peppercorns.
▪ When the petals fall you can shake the heads and hear seeds rattling like peppercorns.
▪ White peppercorns are the black berries that have been soaked and the black husk removed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peppercorn

Peppercorn \Pep"per*corn`\, n.

  1. A dried berry of the black pepper ( Piper nigrum).

  2. Anything insignificant; a particle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
peppercorn

late Old English, from pepper (n.) + corn (n.1).

Wiktionary
peppercorn

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.

WordNet
peppercorn

n. pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground [syn: pepper]

Wikipedia
Peppercorn (disambiguation)

Peppercorn is the fruit of black pepper.

Peppercorn may also refer to:

Peppercorn (legal)

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 a "peppercorn does not cease to be good consideration if it is established that the promisee does not like pepper and will throw away the corn".

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.