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Definition of Cornpone
1. Noun. Cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern).
Definition of Cornpone
1. Noun. (US Appalachian) A form of cornbread made without milk or eggs. ¹
2. Noun. (context: pejorative) Something or someone considered stereotypical of rural, Southern US attitudes or attributes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cornpone
1. bread made with cornmeal [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornpone
Literary usage of Cornpone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families by Hester Dorsey Richardson (1913)
"... (omene) introduced to the English settlers by the Indian women disproves the
general impression that the negroes first knew the art of making cornpone! ..."
2. King and Queen County, Virginia by Alfred Bagby (1908)
"Now all of these are comfortably groomed and fed; when all hands retire to the
kitchen, and keen appetites are satisfied with coffee, cornpone, fried bacon ..."
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