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countable and uncountable, plural cayennes
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spice in a figurative sense. quotations examples
We speak ill of our neighbours, not from ill-nature, but idleness; satire is only the cayenne of conversation:...
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 316