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 also makes a speech, warning them not to accept pinole or water in other people’s houses.

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