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‖ polenta|pəʊˈlɛntə|
Also poll-.
[L. polenta peeled or pearl barley; in later use, repr. It. polenta ‘a meate vsed in Italie made of barlie or chesnut flowre soked in water, and then fride in oyle or butter’ (Florio 1598); now made also of maize flour.]
†a. Pearl-barley. Obs.
†b. A kind of barley meal. Obs.
c. Porridge made from steeped and parched barley or, later, of meal of chestnuts, maize flour, or other substances: now largely used in Italy.
c1000ælfric Josh. v. 11 Hiᵹ..æton..polentan. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxvii. (Bodl. MS.), Som men meneþ þat polenta is a manere potage made of moste pure & dere floure. Ibid., Pollenta is corne isode ipeled & holed & ischeled with frotinge of handes. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 16 b, Polenta..is made of fried or perched barley. 1590P. Barrough Meth. Physick iii. viii. (1639) 111 Polenta is barly steeped in water one night, then fried, and then ground. 1601Holland Pliny I. 561 The ordinarie drie grout or meale also Polenta, which the Greeks so highly commend, was made of nothing els but of barley. 1764Smollett Trav. (1766) I. xx. 319 The nourishment of these poor creatures consists of..a kind of meal called polenta, made of Indian corn, which is very nourishing and agreeable. 1768J. Baretti Mann. & Cust. Italy II. 192 As to the generality of our peasants and lower sort of people, they breakfast on polenta. 1866Howells Venet. Life vi, Golden mountains of polenta (a thicker kind of mush or hasty-pudding made of Indian meal and universally eaten in Italy).
attrib.1884Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 14/2 The shepherd youths..eat their polenta cakes. 1888Pall Mall G. 23 Aug. 5/2 The polenta pot..simmering over the glowing logs. |