red peppers
- plural of red pepper.
Example Sentences
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The smoky rafters above were hung with strings of onions, red-peppers, and long ears of Indian corn, the gold of which shone through pale parted husks and glowed in the firelight.
From In the Valley by Frederic, Harold
I tell you," said Corny, "it don't make any difference whether they want her or not, they haven't any right to make a born queen sit on a stone and sell red-peppers.
From A Jolly Fellowship by Stockton, Frank Richard
A raid upon the country soon furnished us with many strings of home-grown red-peppers.
From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Fletcher, Samuel H.
