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n. (alternative spelling of pepper pot English)
Wikipedia
Pepperpot may refer to:
- A pepper shaker
- Guyana Pepperpot, an Amerindian dish popular in Guyana and the Caribbean
- Mrs. Pepperpot, a fictional character in a series of children's books
- Pepper Pot, Brighton, a building in Brighton, England
- Pepperpot, Godalming, a building in Godalming, Surrey, England
- Pepperpot (lighthouse), a type of small lighthouse
- Pepperpot (revolver), a multi-shot handheld firearm
- Philadelphia Pepper Pot, a thick stew of beef tripe, vegetables, pepper and other seasonings
- A microscopic structure on butterfly wings that causes Iridescence
- "The Pepperpots," a series of British female senior characters on Monty Python's Flying Circus
- The name of a dance figure in the Quickstep
- Pepper-potting, a military tactic used in individual movement techniques
- Pepper-potting, a policy to mix private and public housing within a locality
A Pepperpot or Salt Shaker lighthouse is a popular term used to describe a particular type of small lighthouse that has an architectural style similar to a scaled up salt or pepper shaker. It usually refers to a type of small lighthouse found mainly in Canada, which has a square tapered base with a single gallery and a square lantern. They are usually shingled in wood and painted white; the lantern and trim are red. Many such lighthouses still exist across Canada, especially in the Maritime provinces.
The term Pepperpot lighthouse is also used to describe three of the lighthouses on the Caledonian Canal in Scotland. These are of a slightly different design, consisting of a short round tower with a conical roof. St. Catherine's Oratory a medieval lighthouse on St. Catherine's Down on the southern coast of the Isle of Wight, is also known locally as the pepperpot.
Usage examples of "pepperpot".
Every night after supper, Harv walked Pepperpot, a bichon frise, a ball of fluff with needle sharp teeth, that spent as much time at the vet's as Ethel at the walk-in medical clinic.
Pie trees can bear any kind of pie, usually several types on the same plant: delicious ones like pizza, pecan, shoo-fly, mince, shepherd's, cheese, chocolate cream, as well as offensive varieties like crabapple, pepperpot, pineapple, pe-can, and so on.
He was dressed in jacket and breeches of white linen, the little peaked fore-and-aft cap of his region, and a sash which nearly concealed the pepperpot pistol and pearl-handled gravity knife he preferred.
But that was after certain movements had, with my assistance, been performed by pepperpots, proving to me that although the telepathic air‑waves were jammed in this country, the modes of connection still seemed to function.
Open‑mouthed, unable to tear themselves away, the child‑soldiers drank his life like leaf‑tainted water, as he spoke of bed‑wetting cousins, revolutionary pepperpots, the perfect voice of a sister… Ayooba Shaheed Farooq would have (once upon a time) given anything to know that those rumours had been true.
Behind him stood a young knight in a sand-colored surcoat blazoned with seashells, and an older one who wore three black pepperpots on a saffron bend, across a field of green and silver stripes.