Indian bread

American  

[in-dee-uhn bred] / ˈɪn di ən ˌbrɛd /

noun

1. cornbread.

2. tuckahoe.

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Indian bread British  

noun

1. another name for corn bread

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Etymology

Origin of Indian bread

An Americanism dating back to 1645–55

Example Sentences

So we felt at ease eating so-called Indian bread, a fungus that grows on trees, and prickly heath berries, which taste like apples, along the trail.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

Aleem Ansari had gone to the restaurant where he worked making rotis, the Indian bread.

From Reuters • Dec. 26, 2019

In the slow-motion video, “The Eternal Gradient,” images of roti, a flat, round Indian bread, stand in for the moon in its monthly phases throughout a year.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2018

By night Sujitha Rajendrababu, helps her mother make puris, a type of Indian bread, in the compact kitchen of her one-bedroom flat.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2016

These birds are often domesticated, and are then fed on cazabi, or casada, which is the Indian bread, and which is given them in pans of salt water.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert