1662 G. Torriano 2nd Alphabet Proverbial Phrases 130/1 Lasciar il pan di grano per il pan di miglio.., to leave wheat-bread for millet-bread.

1867 S. Robinson Facts for Farmers II. §44. viii. 707 In Europe it [sc. millet] is often ground, and where people are accustomed to its use, they are fond of millet bread.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 2/2 Generally it is millet bread, for we are poor men, and wheat, as you know, is the food of kings.

2013 D. Colbert New Bible Cure for Weight Loss (rev. ed.) ii. 28 If my patients request bread, I recommend that they have small amounts of millet bread in the morning or at lunch.

1817 H. Ellis Jrnl. Proc. Embassy to China iv. 197 Millet-fields, willow-groves, junks, half-clothed inhabitants with little eyes, and long tails, women with prettily dressed hair.

1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl I. 107 We went through the millet-fields at sunrise.

1973 Field & Stream July 59/1 Anyone would have had trouble finding an alibi sitting in a freshly harvested millet field with doves swarming around like bees at a hive.

2007 K. Arnoldi All Things are Labor 33 The crickets sing about not stopping, not stopping, don't stop, but I do, pulled back into my millet field.

1851 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art & Sci. 1 Mar. 514 This learned individual compounds..little puffs composed of cream and millet-flour, which he calls millassons. I stuff them all day long.

1901 E. Arnold Voy. Ithobal 58 For three men sharp-set one doth make a meal—With millet-flour and oil of olive trees.

1992 Man 27 81 He shares the water mixed with millet flour, and the millet-cakes, with the new-king.

2013 F. Jules et al. Good without Gluten (2014) 16 Savoury pastry... 140g (5 oz) rice flour, 30g (1 oz/¼ cup) millet flour, [etc.].

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Sorgum, a sort of Millet-grain.

1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 334 Many pustules..of the bigness of millet-grains.

1809 Philos. Trans. Abridged 1672–83 (Royal Soc.) II. 383 I take a little quantity of water of a round figure, as large as a millet-grain.

1876 A. H. Church Food 80 Millet grain is used for human food chiefly in hot countries.

1994 J. Wainwright Red-headed Pupil i. xxi. 28 One millet grain of notice blown to you Across the floor should be sufficient.

2014 L. Douny Living in Landscape of Scarcity x. 168 Each millet grain is contained in a sheath, and the sheaths are tightly packed on a stem.

1765 Museum Rusticum 5 76 The millers..return a good third of a bushel of millet-meal for every bushel sent to them.

1868 S. W. Johnson How Crops Grow 382 Manufactured Products and Refuse... Maize meal..Millet meal..Buckwheat grits.

1904 J. W. Wilson & H. G. Skinner Millet for fattening Swine (S. Dakota Agric. Coll. Exper. Station Bull. No. 83) 14 Millet meal produced a softer quality of fat than did either barley or wheat meal.

2013 M. Weidenbörner Mycotoxins in Foodstuffs 293/1 Meal (millet meal) may contain the following mycotoxins: Fusarium Toxins.

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 107 A Millet Pudding. You must get half a Pound of Millet-seed [etc.].

1762 W. Gelleroy London Cook 175 A Mellet Pudding.

1881 Littell's Living Age 5 Feb. 343 I looked into the furnace and saw the metal all in a lump like a millet pudding.

1976 M. A. Bumgarner Bk. Whole Grains 224 Millet Pudding. ​4 cups milk.

2016 G. K. Chandi & G. A. Annor in C. Wrigley et al. Encycl. Food Grains (ed. 2) I. 207/1 Millet pudding is prepared by boiling proso millet grains with water or milk until they become soft..mixed with sugar or jaggery and garnished with nuts and raisins.

1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama Notes 271 Her little cabin, made up of very dry millet-straw and small wood.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 379 They considered millet-straw as the best for cattle.

1986 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 45 506 All millet straw was turned over to the landlord, possibly for use as bedding and fuel.

2002 tr. Guo Tingshuan et al. Animal Production based on Crop Residues: Chinese Experience ii. 26 Millet straw and soybean straw..are fairly palatable for herbivores, and are mostly used as feed sources for horses, donkeys, mules and rabbits.

1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches i. 19 The honey-mead, the millet-ale, Flow round.

1996 New Republic (Electronic ed.) 29 July 26 There are massive ancient bronzes, the dinnerware of the ancestors... Some pieces once held stews and others held millet ale, from which the clans feasted.

1860 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. I. ii. 35 The favourite inebrients are tembu or cocoa toddy, and myinyo, its distillation, pombe or millet-beer.

1996 Afr. Amer. Rev. 30 520 Kangabar..stared straight ahead..puffing breath scented with porridgy millet-beer at Shabaka.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 567 Exormia Milium. Millet-Rash.

1852 W. R. Gingell tr. H. Pi-Hsiang Ceremonial Usages Chinese 96 The Chang jin prepared the Keu chang, black millet wine, and invoked the descent of the gods.]

1885 W. E. Griffis Corea without & Within xx. 233 The guests were treated to the following: Boiled pork with rice-wine, macaroni soup, chicken with millet-wine, boiled eggs, pastry, flour, sesame and honey pudding.

1892 Fortn. Rev. 51 192 We made ourselves insufferably thirsty, so that a good drink of Kaffir beer, or, as the Portuguese call it, ‘millet wine’, was highly acceptable.

1924 J. Tharaud & J. Tharaud Long Walk Samba Diouf i. vi. 52 ‘I believe that in the country of the Niominkas you drink indifferently palm wine and millet wine?’ ‘Palm wine is inexhaustible with us,’ replied Samba proudly, ‘and millet wine is not dried up.’

1994 Anthropol. Today 10 3/1 (caption) A wooden container and cup for millet wine offered to ancestors.

2013 D. Sterk tr. Wu Ming-Yi Man with Compound Eyes (2014) vi. 61 The only thing for the tourists to buy was millet wine or plum wine in tall coloured bottles and cardboard containers.

2015 G. Maynard Yolla 7 The elder village men solemnly raised wine cups containing millet wine, chanted, and, using their carved ikupasuy ceremonial prayer sticks, offered drops of wine to the spirit of the bear and to the gods.

1668 P. Rycaut Present State Ottoman Empire (new ed.) ii. ix. 117 The Turkish Doctors fancy that the seventy two Nations which they call (Yetmish ekee Melet)..was a Type and a Figure of the divisions which in after ages should succeed in the three most General Religions of the World.

1861 G. Finlay Hist. Greek Revol. I. i. 9 The Greek language was the language of the Church and the law which ruled the whole assemblage of nations called by the Othoman administration, Roum meleti, or Roman nation.]

1900 ‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe vii. 296 The Turk divides the population of the Ottoman Empire into Millets, or religious communities.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 395/1 All Moslems..are included in the millet..of Islam. The Rûm, or Roman (i.e., Greek) millet comprises all those who acknowledge the authority of the Œcumenical Patriarch,..the Bulgar millet comprises the Bulgarians who accept the rule of the exarchate; the other millets are the Katolik (Catholics), Ermeni (Gregorian Armenians), Musevi (Jews) and Prodesdan (Protestants).

1942 Turkey (Geogr. Handbk. Ser. B.R. 507, Admiralty, Naval Intelligence Div.) I. viii. 290 Each millet had complete autonomy, under the authority and leadership of an ecclesiastical functionary who had also certain temporal powers.

1974 G. Lewis Mod. Turkey (ed. 4) 35 In modern Turkish millet means ‘nation’, but the word has not quite lost its older sense. If you tell a Turk that your millet is İngiliz, he will assume not only that you have a British passport but also that you are a member of the Church of England.

1980 Word 1979 30 10 This legal status can even become extra territorial in that all adherents, no matter where they live, have the right to be ruled by the laws of the ethnic entity to which they belong. This principle was the basis of the millet system.