corn cake
Americannoun
Regionalisms
See pancake.
Etymology
Origin of corn cake
An Americanism dating back to 1785–95
Example Sentences
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Most of all, I miss the dense, moist sweet corn cake.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2022
The meal opened with a cup of café con leche and salty crackers, Lola’s fry bread and humitas — a fresh corn cake steamed in a husk.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2022
Desserts include a warm corn cake with ice cream.
From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022
They waited an hour for blueberry-stained corn cake and ate chocolate chunk muffins for breakfast.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2019
The friends of the sick woman prepared the alkàn, a great corn cake baked in the earth, the manufacture of which gave evidence of the antiquity of the process.
From The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 by Matthews, Washington
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