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corn-bread U.S.
[corn n.1 5.]
Bread made of corn-meal.
1775J. Schaw Jrnl. Lady of Quality (1921) 171 And vast quantities of pork, beef and corn-bread were set forth. 1823E. James Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 68 They purchased a ham, and a loaf of corn bread of Mr. Kennedy. 1865T. W. Knox Camp-fire & Cotton-field 336 Corn-bread, bacon, and potatoes were the only articles set before us. 1913G. S. Porter Laddie xii, There wasn't a crumb there except cornbread, and she didn't want that. 1959Wall St. Jrnl. (Eastern ed.) 4 Mar. 1/6 Mr. Hudnall's small pension enables him to eke out what the valley folk term a ‘corn bread living’. |