polenta
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tə noun
(especially in Italian cooking) a thick mush of cornmeal.
Origin:
1555–65; < Italian < Latin: hulled and crushed grain, especially barley
1555–65; < Italian < Latin: hulled and crushed grain, especially barley
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| —n | |
| a thick porridge made in Italy, usually from maize | |
| [C16: via Italian from Latin: pearl barley, perhaps from Greek palē pollen] | |
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Word Origin & History
polenta
O.E., from L., lit. "peeled barley," related to pollen "fine flour." Later reborrowed from It. polenta, from the L. word (see pollen).
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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polenta
a porridge or mush usually made of ground corn (maize) cooked in salted water. Cheese and butter or oil are often added. Polenta can be eaten hot or cold as a porridge; or it can be cooled until firm, cut into shapes, and then baked, toasted, panfried, or deep-fried. It is a traditional food of northern Italy, especially the Piedmont region, and of Corsica, where chestnut flour is used in place of cornmeal. Polenta is also sometimes made from barley meal
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Example sentences
First he and his parents and siblings would take turns rubbing their polenta on the fish.
Serve the ribs with creamy mashed potatoes or polenta and crusty bread.
Start your meal with the crispy fried polenta with cilantro lime cream or the house-made hummus with pine nuts on sesame crostini.
We bought three things: organic stoneground wheat flour, organic stoneground wheat pastry flour, and corn polenta.
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