Definition of "peppered"

This heavily peppered soup was traditionally prepared to celebrate the rite of marriage in Languedoc.

2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables: A Cook's ABC of Vegetables and their Preparation, page 168

Prior to 1900, within the population of peppered moths the vast majority were lightly peppered; but a very few were heavily peppered in their pigmentation.

2006, Luke Eric Lassiter, Invitation to Anthropology, 2nd edition, page 8