cornbread

American

[kawrn-bred] / ˈkɔrnˌbrɛd /

Or corn bread

noun

Also called Indian bread. a quick bread made from cornmeal and often including buttermilk or bacon drippings, originating from the cooking of Native Americans and common in the American South.
Also called Jewish corn rye. Also called kornbroyt. a heavy sourdough rye bread, usually dusted with cornmeal.

Etymology

Origin of cornbread

An Americanism dating back to 1740–50

Example Sentences

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For dinner, we had cold cornbread that Mama had baked, sweet milk, honey, and butter—that was all.

From Literature

The diner with stewy green beans flecked with bacon, sliding up next to a square of cornbread.

From Salon

Cold chicken, cold cornbread, sliced tomatoes with thin slivers of onion on top, and her sour pickles.

From Literature

Reaching in, past a pile of apples and a wrapped loaf of Mrs. Wigginbottom’s Indian cornbread, I felt around until I touched the soft material of what must have been a gown of some sort.

From Literature

It’s a reality at the heart of Thanksgiving, when celebrants pass anecdotes around the table as freely as the cornbread dressing and pumpkin pie.

From The Wall Street Journal

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