cornbread

or corn bread

[ kawrn-bred ]

noun

1. Also called Indian bread. a quick bread made from cornmeal and often including buttermilk or bacon drippings, originating from the cooking of Native Americans and common in the American South.
2. Also called korn·broyt [kawrn, -broit];. a heavy sourdough rye bread, usually dusted with cornmeal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cornbread¹

An Americanism dating back to 1740–50

Example Sentences

Jones and his family have said that Jones was home that night, playing Monopoly with them and eating “spaghetti and cornbread.”

From Vox

I held my breath as I traveled the 15 feet from kitchen to dining room, balancing bowls stacked high with rosemary roasted potatoes, freshly baked buns and fluffy wedges of cornbread.

From Washington Post

Expect a cozy holiday read-aloud and a hankering for homemade cornbread.

From Washington Post

Relegated to second fiddle in stuffing, or as a side of side dishes in cornbread and dinner rolls, bread is as sidelined and forgotten at Thanksgiving as those wilted green beans that your aunt keeps bringing but no one ever eats.

From Eater

Like its cornbread inspiration, this cake is casual and familiar.

From Eater

We love the chicken on a pallet of herby, slightly sweet cornbread dressing, which imbibes all the seeping juices.

From The Daily Beast

In the opening moments we saw Clinton hugging Dove; doing a walk-and-talk shot; helping Dove make cornbread in front of a class.

From The Daily Beast

To this day, I pick up a box of Jiffy cornbread mix when shopping.

From The Daily Beast

Making this recipe extra appealing to me, though, is how much I love cornbread stuffing.

From The Daily Beast

Oh, you should taste dandelions boiled with bacon and served with mother's cornbread.

From Project Gutenberg

How good, in the mist-drenched wood, tasted the scalding coffee, how good the cornbread and the bacon!

From Project Gutenberg

The general helped his guest to cornbread and himself began upon frumenty.

From Project Gutenberg

Made serious attempts to buy cornbread of citizens or hard-tack from trains going to the front, but failed.

From Project Gutenberg

Women and boys in camp trading cornbread off for coffee and salt, etc. with the soldiers.

From Project Gutenberg