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pepper-and-salt(dictionary)
pepper and salt fundus(medicine)
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pepper-and-salt (iou)



pepper-and-salt noun & adjective. L18.
[from PEPPER noun + AND conjunction1 + SALT noun1 & adjective1.]
A. noun.
A kind of cloth made of interwoven dark and light threads, presenting a flecked or speckled appearance. L18.
The plant harbinger-of-spring, Erigenia bulbosa, so called from the colour-contrast of its white petals and dark anthers. US. M19.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of, characteristic of, or resembling pepper-and-salt; esp. (of hair) being flecked with grey. Cf. SALT-AND-PEPPER. M19.
pepper-and-salt fundus Medicine a symptom of congenital syphilis, the fundus of the eye having a speckled appearance.
J. Gaskell My hair is nearly white. Last time I looked it was only pepper-and-salt. W. S. Maugham Very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trousers.