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pinole

1

[ pi-noh-lee; Spanish pee-naw-le ]

noun

  1. corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.


Pinole

2

[ pi-nohl ]

noun

  1. a town in W California.

pinole

/ ±èɪˈ²Ôəʊ±ôɪ /

noun

  1. (in the southwestern United States) flour made of parched ground corn, mesquite beans, sugar, etc
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pinole1

1835–45, Americanism; < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl pinolli flour, something ground
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pinole1

from American Spanish, from Nahuatl
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After his run that day, he drank pinole in the four-wheel-drive support vehicle.

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They sometimes left him tortillas and pinole, a porridge of crushed corn and water.

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It will be noticed that Vandaih drinks the pinole, which bewitches him, five times instead of the usual four.

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We distributed presents to them, and some pinole.

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Yet it might be a stock of pinole, parched corn, as evidence of Miguel’s forethought against privation on the long eastern trail.

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