Definition of Cornbread

1. Noun. Bread made primarily of cornmeal.


Definition of Cornbread

1. Noun. (American English) bread made from cornmeal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cornbread

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornbread

corn whisky
cornacre
cornacres
cornage
cornages
cornamute
cornamutes
cornball
cornbind
cornbraid
cornbraided
cornbraiding
cornbraids
cornbrash
cornbread (current term)
cornbreads
corncake
corncakes
corncob
corncobs
corncockle
corncockles
corncrake
corncrakes
corncrib
corncribs
corncutter
corncutters
corndodger

Literary usage of Cornbread

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Jane Hamilton's Recipes: Delicacies from the Old Dominion by Charlotte Mason Poindexter (1909)
"999 cornbread, RICE. Boil eight ounces of rice and let it get cold. ... cornbread requires less salt and takes a longer time to bake than any kind of bread ..."

2. Eat Your Food! Gastronomical Glory from Garden to Gut: A Coastalfields by Aaron Brachfeld, Aaron Brachfeld and Mary Choate, Mary Choate (2007)
"You will see that the potatoes require less time than the cornbread and the honey butter requires less time than the potatoes. Start with those items that ..."

3. Baker's Bread by Paul Richards (1918)
"This cornbread is delicious if eaten fresh, and everybody likes it. ... This cornbread is made different from the yeast-raised breads named before, ..."

4. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman (1912)
"Mean skunk he is, that cornbread Tom." "Who?" "That screw Fellings. We call him cornbread Tom, b'cause he swipes our corn dodger." "What's corn dodger? ..."

5. Composition of Foods: Baked Products: Raw, Processed, Prepared (1994)
"Bread, cornbread. made with lowfat (2%) milk 01079 lowfat (2%) milk 38. ... Bread, cornbread. made with whole milk 01077 whole milk 38.32 20022 yellow ..."

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