maizeflour
maizeflour noun: synonym of cornflour.
Noun
maizeflour (uncountable)
- Synonym of cornflour.
- At the Tushins one may sometimes buy some bread of maizeflour and some onions, very rarely some rice.1886 November 15, Ad. Sulima of Ulanowski, “Some Notions about Caucasus. III.”, in Fritz Rühl, editor, Societas entomologica, 1st year, number 15, Zürich-Hottingen: […] Fritz Rühl […] [Printed by]...
- Flour ............sacks 16,000 / Maizeflour...... ,, / Riceflour ...... ,,1907 August 19, “Corn Statistics”, in Mark Lane Express, Agricultural Journal and Live Stock Record, London, →OCLC, “Review of the British Corn Trade during the Past Week” supplement, page iii...
- Synonyms:
- cornflour
Examples of maizeflour in a sentence
- A roast turkey with satsivi came next, and with it a high-piled dish of ghome, which is maizeflour porridge cooked for hours over a slow fire.1972, Helen Papashvily, George Papashvily, the Editors of Time-Life Books, “A Mountain Picnic on a Grand Scale”, in The Cooking of Russia...
- Their palate was still further regaled by confections and pastry, for which their maizeflour and sugar supplied ample materials.1974 [1843], William H[ickling] Prescott, “Aztec Agriculture. - Mechanical Arts. - Merchants. - Domestic Manners.”, in The World of the...
- Migrant workers would travel home with supplies of dried meat, dried fish and maizeflour and use their wages to purchase additional food from local Indian merchants.1980, Leroy Vail, Landeg White, “Frelimo’s Inheritance”, in Capitalism and Colonialism in Mozambique: A Study of Quelimane District...
- Three typical dishes are mititei, chopped sausage; sarmale, spiced meat and rice in vine leaves or sauerkraut; and mamaliguta, maizeflour porridge.1983, “Romanian Food”, in Travel Guide to Europe: What to See: A Catalog of Selected Travel Information, Falls Church, Va.: American...
Synonyms of maizeflour
Origin of maizeflour
From maize + flour.
Questions about maizeflour
- What does maizeflour mean?
- Maizeflour means synonym of cornflour.
- How do you use maizeflour in a sentence?
- A roast turkey with satsivi came next, and with it a high-piled dish of ghome, which is maizeflour porridge cooked for hours over a slow fire.
- What part of speech is maizeflour?
- Maizeflour is a noun.
Words near maizeflour in the dictionary
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