- a variation of cornbread.
corn bread
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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With Cornish hens in the oven, she melted butter for corn bread and stripped the stems off mustard greens that she would add to a turkey neck and onions boiling on the stove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
Livingston, Serrao and Walker top off the hot, buttery corn bread with crab and caviar, just a snack for friends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2019
About a dozen women came, moving from scones and tea to corn bread and chili.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2018
For most Southerners, and Texans too, for that matter, Sunday supper is more likely to be corn bread and milk than pork roast.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2018
Dad, musing into his glass of corn bread and milk, said nothing.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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