kian
early form of cayenne.
| 1794 A. Thomas Newfoundland Jrnl. 13 May (1968) 39 The Cook was holding, at an unseasonable moment, the Saucepan of Mock Turtle to season it higher with Kian. 1845 B. Upton Let. 10 Sept. in Amer. Hist. (1966) XVII. iv. 87/2 Cayenne pepper (kian) grows wild here on the prairies. |