1835–45, < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl pinolli flour, something ground
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Zepeda tops it with mamey curd, brown butter almond cake, and a pinole crumble.
From Salon • May 24, 2025
They sometimes left him tortillas and pinole, a porridge of crushed corn and water.
From New York Times • May 21, 2012
In an era of energy gels and endurance drinks, he’s consuming mostly mineral water, cacao and a traditional ground maize called pinole.
From Washington Post
After his run that day, he drank pinole in the four-wheel-drive support vehicle.
From Washington Post
They have had nothing to eat all day but pinole and tepid water, and their legs have been rubbed with warm water in the morning by the managers.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl
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