Definitions

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  • noun A very hot type of chilli from Brazil, colored red when it has matured.

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Examples

  • a sharp sauce made of vinegar and _ "malagueta;" _ a dish of spiced herbs, and cold cake sprinkled with cinnamon, formed enough to tempt a poor monk reduced to the ordinary meager fare of his parish.

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866

  • I didn't love the shrimp Piri Piri, if only because the gravy didn't have quite the volume of malagueta chili spice I'd expect from such a famously hot dish.

    Philly.com - Latest Videos 2010

  • malagueta;” a dish of spiced herbs, and cold cake sprinkled with cinnamon, formed enough to tempt a poor monk reduced to the ordinary meager fare of his parish.

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

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