maizebread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maize + bread.
Senses: examples: text: Then she brought the guava fruit, / With her maidens to the bay; / She gave them the yuccaroot, / Maizebread and the yuccaroot, / Of sweet Xaraguay: […]
ref: 1828–1831, Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Anacaona”, in [Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson], Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., published 1897, →OCLC, “Unpublished Poems, Written (1828–1831) at Cambridge” section, stanza 4, page 57:
text: The Maize is so cheap in Peking, that even the beggars enjoy from time to time the luxury of eating maizebread.
ref: 1871 January, E[mil] Bretschneider, “The Study and Value of Chinese Botanical Works”, in Justus Doolittle, editor, The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal. […], volume III, number 8, Fuzhou, Fujian: […] Rozario, Marçal & Co., →OCLC, footnote, page 225, column 1:
text: Mr. [Otis] Barrett does not appear to realize that the word “corn,” as used by Americans, has so ramified in phrases and compounds of everyday use that to abandon it would entail an appalling number of other changes in our speech. Thus, to be consistent, we should have to substitute “maizemeal” for “cornmeal,” “maizebread” for “cornbread,” “maizestarch” for “cornstarch,” and so on.
ref: [1913 April 26, “Misnamed Grains and Fruits”, in Scientific American: The Weekly Journal of Practical Information, volume CVIII, number 17, New York, N.Y.: Munn & Co., Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 374, columns 2–3:
text: The English are told as children that maize is food for pigs, and tho Americans eat maizebread with pleasure and have recently done so to a huge extent in order to make possible exports of wheat to Europe, the English persist in their unfounded prejudice against it.
ref: 1919 September 6, “Wanted: A Nutrition Laboratory”, in The Literary Digest, volume 62, number 10 (1533 overall), New York, N.Y.; London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Science and Invention” section, page 114, column 2:
text: The last twenty, or so, of the Indians bore larger baskets, but more lightly freighted, seemingly with manioc, and maizebread, and other food for the party; […]
ref: 1920 [1855], Charles Kingsley, “How They Took the Gold-Train”, in Westward Ho! […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 301:
text: During this operation we were served with a strange cooked cheese, filled with butter, over which was a maizebread crust. Sweet-sour, gummy, but stuff that made you want to eat on and on.
ref: 1951, Negley Farson, chapter XI, in Caucasian Journey, London: Evans Brothers Limited, published 1952, →OCLC, page 118:
text: While the Tongas chanted round their camp-fires, Duma, a lump of boiled maizebread in his hand, talked quietly.
ref: [1958], Rex Gutridge, “The Witch of the Leopard Tribe”, in Thunder over Africa, London; New York, N.Y.: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, page 63:
text: Generally, the Bhils have two meals, one at about ten in the morning and the other after sunset. The morning meal consists of maizebread.
ref: 1981, “Bhils”, in S. B. Rajyagor, S. Tripathi, U. M. Chokshi, editors, Gujarat State Gazetteers: Banaskantha District, Ahmadabad, Gujarat: Government Printing, Stationery and Publications, →OCLC, chapter III (People), page 197:
text: One is tempted to call them elfin, for what kind of men would struggle up those backbreaking slopes all their maizebread goatmilk days to achieve such loneliness?
ref: 1997, Taufiq Rafat, “Lights”, in Muneeza Shamsie, editor, A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English, Karachi, Sindh: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, “Poems for a Younger Brother” section, page 64:
text: He went back into Jackson to find the pantry: strings of dried apples and peaches and pears, strips of dried meat, the maize saved for both next season’s seed and to be ground into flour. The smell of maizebread baking in the squat iron pots was one of Caleb’s favorite smells.
ref: 2001, Warren Rochelle, “Caleb, 15-17 October 2155”, in The Wild Boy, Urbana, Ill.: Golden Gryphon Press, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Synonym of cornbread.
synonyms: word: cornbread