pinole

¹ American  

[pi-noh-lee, pee-naw-le] / pɪˈnoʊ li, piˈnɔ lɛ /

noun

1. corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.

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Pinole ² American  

[pi-nohl] / pɪˈnoʊl /

noun

1. a town in W California.

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pinole British  

/ pɪˈnəʊlɪ /

noun

1. (in the southwestern United States) flour made of parched ground corn, mesquite beans, sugar, etc

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Etymology

Origin of pinole

1835–45, < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl pinolli flour, something ground

Example Sentences

Zepeda tops it with mamey curd, brown butter almond cake, and a pinole crumble.

From Salon

After his run that day, he drank pinole in the four-wheel-drive support vehicle.

From Washington Post

They sometimes left him tortillas and pinole, a porridge of crushed corn and water.

From New York Times

It will be noticed that Vandaih drinks the pinole, which bewitches him, five times instead of the usual four.

From Project Gutenberg

We distributed presents to them, and some pinole.

From Project Gutenberg