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maizebread

maizebread noun: synonym of cornbread.

Noun

maizebread (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Synonym of cornbread.
    • Then she brought the guava fruit, / With her maidens to the bay; / She gave them the yuccaroot, / Maizebread and the yuccaroot, / Of sweet Xaraguay: […]1828–1831, Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Anacaona”, in [Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson], Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan &...
    • The Maize is so cheap in Peking, that even the beggars enjoy from time to time the luxury of eating maizebread.1871 January, E[mil] Bretschneider, “The Study and Value of Chinese Botanical Works”, in Justus Doolittle, editor, The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal. […], volume III, number 8, Fuzhou...
    Synonyms:
    cornbread

Examples of maizebread in a sentence

  • Thus, to be consistent, we should have to substitute “maizemeal” for “cornmeal,” “maizebread” for “cornbread,” “maizestarch” for “cornstarch,” and so on.[1913 April 26, “Misnamed Grains and Fruits”, in Scientific American: The Weekly Journal of Practical Information, volume CVIII, number 17...
  • 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; […]1920 [1855], Charles Kingsley, “How They Took the Gold-Train”, in Westward Ho! […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page...
  • During this operation we were served with a strange cooked cheese, filled with butter, over which was a maizebread crust.1951, Negley Farson, chapter XI, in Caucasian Journey, London: Evans Brothers Limited, published 1952, →OCLC, page 118:
  • While the Tongas chanted round their camp-fires, Duma, a lump of boiled maizebread in his hand, talked quietly.[1958], Rex Gutridge, “The Witch of the Leopard Tribe”, in Thunder over Africa, London; New York, N.Y.: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., →OCLC...

Synonyms of maizebread

Origin of maizebread

From maize + bread.

Questions about maizebread

What does maizebread mean?
Maizebread means synonym of cornbread.
How do you use maizebread in a sentence?
Thus, to be consistent, we should have to substitute “maizemeal” for “cornmeal,” “maizebread” for “cornbread,” “maizestarch” for “cornstarch,” and so on.
What part of speech is maizebread?
Maizebread is a noun.

Words near maizebread in the dictionary

  1. maize syrups
  2. maize weevil
  3. maize weevils
  4. maize-cream
  5. maize-on-the-cob
  6. maizebread
  7. maizefield
  8. maizefields
  9. maizeflour
  10. maizeless
  11. maizelike

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