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oat⋅meal

[oht-meel, -meel]
–noun
1. meal made from ground or rolled oats.
2. a cooked breakfast food made from this.
3. a grayish-fawn color.
–adjective
4. made with or containing oatmeal: oatmeal cookies.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see oat, meal 2
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oat·meal   (ōt'mēl')   
n.  
  1. Meal made from oats; rolled or ground oats.

  2. A porridge made from rolled or ground oats.

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oatmeal 
1393, from oat (q.v.) + M.E. mele (see meal (2)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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