Recent Examples on the WebIn a bowl, combine the shredded cheese, pimentos, jalapeno, and a dash of pepper until evenly distributed.—Michelle Gross, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2024 The recipe uses 3 cups of leftover diced turkey blended with a creamy roux and spiced up with pimentos and red pepper.—Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2023 The honey pepper pimento sandwich adds three main ingredients to the classic Chick-fil-A filet: jalapeños, honey and custom pimento cheese made with sharp cheddar, green chilis and red pimentos.—Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2023 One captain recalled how the women helped seize 50 rolls of tobacco and nine bags of pimento from his ship.—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022 Between the bread is cheddar, provolone and pimento, creating white, orange and red strata of melted cheese that are sharp and creamy.—Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022 This potato salad, made with butter and pimento, is anything but pedestrian.—Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY, 10 July 2022 Add the pepper flakes, pimento and wine and bring to a boil for 1 minute.—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 18 May 2022 Even the scents blended into this fragrance evoke images of untamed wilderness just begging to be explored; crisp siberian pine, juniper, and calabrian bergamot mix flawlessly with notes of canadian fir, clary sage, pimento, and leather.—Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
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Word History
Etymology
Spanish pimienta allspice, pepper, from Late Latin pigmenta, plural of pigmentum plant juice, from Latin, pigment
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