pinole
noun
corn or wheat, dried, ground, and sweetened, usually with the flour of mesquite beans.
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pinole
1 American
[pi-noh-lee, pee-naw-le]
/ pɪˈnoʊ li, piˈnɔ lɛ /
noun
Pinole
2
American
[pi-nohl]
/ pɪˈnoʊl /
noun
pinole
British
/ pɪˈnəʊlɪ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of pinole
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
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
In some instances she begins to give it once in a while a little pinole when it is only six months old.
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 Carl Lumholtz
"This is of increasing concern to our elected officials and residents who feel as if our communities are under siege," said the letter signed by the mayors of Pinole, Richmond and Hercules.
From Reuters ● May 27, 2016
The mayors of Hercules, Richmond, San Pablo, Pinole and El Cerrito signed a letter addressed to Gov. Jerry Brown that says the situation has reached "crisis proportions."
From US News ● May 26, 2016
The mayors of Hercules, Richmond, San Pablo, Pinole and El Cerrito signed a letter addressed to Gov. Jerry Brown that says the situation has reached “crisis proportions.”
From Salon ● May 26, 2016
They live in the Contra Costa County town of Pinole and work in the relatively conservative community of Blackhawk, near Danville, Calif.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2015
There were six of us, in two boats, and to avoid suspicion we ran down after dark and dropped anchor under a projecting bluff of land known as Point Pinole.
From Tales of the Fish Patrol by George Varian
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