Crossword clues for pimento
pimento
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pimiento \Pi*mien"to\, n. [Sp.] The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a vegetable, to stuff olives, etc.; also the fruit itself. Also called pimento.
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 added a dash of color to food or drink.[I]n med.L. spiced drink, hence spice, pepper (generally), Sp. pimiento, Fr. piment are applied to Cayenne or Guinea pepper, capsicum; in Eng. the name has passed to allspice or Jamaica pepper. [OED]The piece of red sweet pepper stuffed in a pitted olive so called from 1918, earlier pimiento (1901), from Spanish. French piment is from Spanish.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of ''Capsicum annuum'', used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice. 2 A tropical berry used to make allspice.
WordNet
n. plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers [syn: sweet pepper, bell pepper, pimiento, paprika, sweet pepper plant, Capsicum annuum grossum]
fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked [syn: pimiento]
Wikipedia
"Pimento" is the ninth episode of the first season of the AMC television series Better Call Saul, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad.
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.