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Definition of Pepper pot

1. Noun. A soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns; often contains dumplings.

2. Noun. A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.

Definition of Pepper pot

1. Noun. A small container with a perforated top used for sprinkling ground pepper ¹

2. Noun. A soup made of tripe, vegetables and dumplings, seasoned with pepper. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Pepper pot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"A Pepper-pot, to be served in a Tureen. To three quarts of water put vegetables according to the season; in summer, peas, lettuce, and spinach; ..."

2. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy, and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1840)
"A Pepper-pot, to be served in a Tureen. Pepper-pot may be made of various things, and is understood to be a due proportion of fish, flesh, ..."

3. Among the Indians of Guiana: Being Sketches Chiefly Anthropologic from the by Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn (1883)
"Cooking done by Women—Fire-making—Staple Food: Meat chiefly in form of Pepper-pot; Cassava as Bread, Farine, ..."

4. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1875)
"One day we saw something we could not resist— 'West India Pepper-pot, Id.' Neither of us had ever tasted this, but we both liked hot and tasty things; ..."

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