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pepita
1[ puh-pee-tuh, pe- ]
noun
- the edible seed of a pumpkin or squash, used in cooking and often dried or toasted and eaten as a snack food.
Pepita
2[ puh-pee-tuh, pe-; Spanish pe-pee-tah ]
noun
- a female given name.
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Example Sentences
Pepita and the other two Indian women, with the wounded muleteers, were taken to another house.
All adored him and one, Pepita, a little Spanish model, loved him with the love of a dog for its master.
"Pepita Ximenez" has enjoyed a wide celebrity, not only in Spain, but in every other Spanish-speaking country.
To-morrow I am to dine at the house of the famous Pepita Ximenez, of whom you have doubtless heard.
Until her sixteenth year Pepita lived with her mother in very straitened circumstances—bordering, indeed, upon absolute want.
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