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 • May 24, 2025

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

From New York Times • May 21, 2012

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

From Washington Post

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

He touched the basket and in an instant all the pinole vanished in the air, going no man knows whither.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus