cep

[sep]

noun

1. an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.

cep

/ sɛp /

noun

1. another name for porcino

Word History and Origins

Origin of cep¹

1860–65; < French cèpe < Gascon cep mushroom, tree trunk < Latin cip ( p ) us boundary stone, pillar

Word History and Origins

Origin of cep¹

C19: from French cèpe, from Gascon dialect cep, from Latin cippus stake

Example Sentences

Edited by Lee’s appointed biographer Casey Cep, it collects the author’s youthful short stories along with the surprisingly few nonfiction pieces she produced after becoming famous.

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In her introduction, Lee’s appointed biographer Casey Cep observes that it “takes enormous patience and unerring instincts to refine a scrap of story into something ... keen and moving.”

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The creation of the CEP comes less than two weeks after a visit to Port-au-Prince by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who had urged Haiti's provisional government to move forward with the electoral process.

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The focus of my first CEP project was economic conversion, a process designed to help communities reduce their dependency on Pentagon spending.

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While at CEP, I wrote about the top 100 Pentagon contractors, the top 25 arms exporting firms and the economic benefits of a nuclear weapons freeze.

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