Indian meal
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The most common pantry moths are Indian meal moths.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022
At twelve o’clock it gets dinner, composed of a tin of coarse Indian meal stirabout, and at half-past five it gets a piece of dry bread and a tin of water for its supper.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018
And, I wore it while cooking a spicy Indian meal.
From Forbes • Mar. 6, 2014
Some time-pressed hosts rely on these cooks to give their guests a home-cooked Indian meal, when they can’t cook it themselves.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2011
I have usually preferred cakes of Indian meal, or wheat meal unbolted and baked very hard, to gruel or pudding.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
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