pepper pot
Americannoun
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Also called Philadelphia pepper pot. a highly seasoned, thick soup made of tripe or other meat, vegetables, and sometimes dumplings.
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a West Indian stew of meat or fish and vegetables, flavored with cassareep.
noun
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a small container with perforations in the top for sprinkling pepper
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a Caribbean stew of meat, rice, vegetables, etc, highly seasoned with cassareep
Etymology
Origin of pepper pot
First recorded in 1670–80
Example Sentences
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Stewed tomatoes and rice, fried cabbage, steak pepper pot and a meatloaf burger are some of the dishes.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2019
Southwell Minster is famous for its "pepper pot towers".
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2019
Fiery Jamaican jerk, curry-laced Trinidadian roti, soulful Haitian pepper pot, decadent pernil-stuffed Puerto Rican mofongo, effervescent Cuban mojitos, and the plantain grits that are Dominican mangú.
From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2018
Her arancini is made with dirty rice, for example, and while her beignets with spiced chocolate sauce are the best in town, she offers up a Caribbean pepper pot rather than a gumbo.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2016
The room was perfectly circular, so that it felt like being inside a giant pepper pot.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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