piemento

English

Noun

piemento (plural piementos)

1. Archaic spelling of pimento.
   • 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 34:

     We must not therefore be surprised ... that all these barbarous Nations support Nakedness without Pain, use such large Quantities of Piemento to give their Food a Relish, and drink like Water the strongest Liquors of Europe.

   • 1765, Edmund Burke, William Burke, chapter III, in An Account of the European Settlements in America in Six Parts, volume 2, page 70:

     The natural products of Jamaica, besides sugar, cacao, and ginger, are principally piemento, or, as it is called, allspice, or Jamaica pepper.

   • 1819, Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British West Indies, 5th edition, Volume 2, Book V, Chapter IV, page 369:

     The piemento tree grows spontaneously, and in great abundance, in many parts of Jamaica.