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Pease


Occurrences

Pease

Additional Notes

The OED does not have listings for this spelling under the entry for “pea (2)”, and while the first 2 definitions (the edible seeds of the plant and the legume plant itself) match what we think of as “peas,” none of the dates are before 1650.
American peas are clearly differentiated from English peas here.