piri-piri
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of piri-piri
from a Bantu language: literally, pepper
Example Sentences
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Not ready to surrender his piri-piri dreams, Germishuys workshopped his own sauces, apparently in his father’s garage, though you have to wonder where the truth ends and the legend begins here.
From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022
But you don’t eat at a piri-piri joint and order the bird grilled with a lemon-and-herb sauce.
From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022
The chile typically used in piri-piri sauce is the African bird’s eye, a potent pepper with a complicated history of migration, colonization and assimilation.
From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022
Galinha has Portuguese barbecue with chicken and linguiça sausage seasoned with piri-piri sauce.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2021
Ethnobotanists in western Amazonia have often encountered piri-piri, a strange-looking sedge — a flowering, grasslike plant — reputed to feature many medicinal qualities.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020
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