pinole

[ pi-noh-lee; Spanish pee-naw-le ]

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noun

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

Pinole

[ pi-nohl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

pinole

/ pɪˈnəʊlɪ /

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

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Origin of pinole¹

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

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Origin of pinole¹

from American Spanish, from Nahuatl

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In his trip of 1772, between Milpitas and Pinole, Crespi mentions seeing or crossing 31 arroyos, all with running water.

Their food is amole, bellota and pinole and their chiefs are called Mule and Yuma.

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

Sixteen days he must fast, and only after the fourth day is he allowed to drink a little pinole.

But—I should have to buy my fame at the price of living on tortillas and pinole and beans!

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