Also called pone bread.a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
2.
a loaf or oval-shaped cake of any type of bread, esp. corn bread.
Origin: 1605–15, Americanism; < Virginia Algonquian (E sp.) apones, appoans, poan < Proto-Algonquian *apwa⋅n- thing roasted or baked, deriv. of *apwe⋅- to roast, bake
1634, "American Indian bread," earlier appone, ponap (1612), from Algonquian (Powhatan) apan "something baked," from apen "she bakes." Later used in Southern U.S. for any type of cornbread.
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