maizebread

Synonym of cornbread.

Noun

  1. Synonym of cornbread.
    • Then she brought the guava fruit, / With her maidens to the bay; / She gave them the yuccaroot, / Maizebread and the yuccaroot, / Of sweet Xaraguay: […] - 1828–1831, Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Anacaona”, in [Hallam...
    • The Maize is so cheap in Peking, that even the beggars enjoy from time to time the luxury of eating maizebread. - 1871 January, E[mil] Bretschneider, “The Study and Value of Chinese Botanical Works”, in Justus...
    • 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...

    Synonyms: cornbread

Origin

From maize + bread.