Meaning of maizebread | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of cornbread.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Then she brought the guava fruit, / With her maidens to the bay; / She gave them the yuccaroot, / Maizebread and the yuccaroot, / Of sweet Xaraguay: […]”

“The Maize is so cheap in Peking, that even the beggars enjoy⟳ from time to time the luxury of eating maizebread.”

“Mr. [Otis] Barrett does not appear⟳ to realize⟳ that the word “corn,” as used by Americans, has so ramified in phrases and compounds of everyday use⟳ that to abandon it would entail an appalling number⟳ of other changes in our speech. Thus, to be consistent, we should have⟳ to substitute “maizemeal” for “cornmeal,” “maizebread” for “cornbread,” “maizestarch” for “cornstarch,” and so on.”

“The English are told as children that maize is food for pigs, and tho Americans eat⟳ maizebread with pleasure and have⟳ recently done so to a huge extent in order⟳ to make⟳ possible exports of wheat to Europe, the English persist in their unfounded prejudice against it.”

“The last⟳ twenty, or so, of the Indians bore larger baskets, but more lightly freighted, seemingly with manioc, and maizebread, and other food for the party; […]”

“During this operation we were served with a strange cooked cheese, filled with butter, over which was a maizebread crust. Sweet-sour, gummy, but stuff that made you want⟳ to eat⟳ on and on.”

“While the Tongas chanted round their camp-fires, Duma, a lump of boiled maizebread in his hand, talked quietly.”

“Generally, the Bhils have⟳ two meals, one at about ten in the morning and the other after sunset. The morning meal consists of maizebread.”

“One is tempted to call⟳ them elfin, for what kind of men would struggle⟳ up those backbreaking slopes all their maizebread goatmilk days to achieve⟳ such loneliness?”

“He went back into Jackson to find⟳ the pantry: strings of dried apples and peaches and pears, strips of dried meat, the maize saved for both next season’s seed and to be ground into flour. The smell⟳ of maizebread baking in the squat iron⟳ pots was one of Caleb’s favorite smells.”

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