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Word: pyment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...citizens will have their chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting. Special varieties are sack mead, which tastes like Tokay; cyser, in which cider instead of water is mixed with honey to make a wine that tastes like sherry; and pyment, or clarre, which is like claret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bottles, Birds & Dollars | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...extra charge for the fact that the birds had been bagged by George VI and his hunting party in Scotland (TIME, Aug. 22). The thing for U.S. gourmets to do, of course, would be to wash the illustrious birds down with a full cup of English mead; pyment, said gastronomes, would go best with grouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bottles, Birds & Dollars | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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