What is "pepperpots"

Usage examples of "pepperpots".

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.