Sostantivo
Synonym of cornbread.
Uso- raro
- non numerabile
- Esempi
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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.
Altri esempi (8)
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.