corn-bread

See also: corn bread and cornbread

English

Noun

corn-bread (countable and uncountable, plural corn-breads)

  1. Dated form of cornbread.
    • 1879, William Henry Perrin, Albert Adams Graham, D. M. Blair, editors, The History of Coles County, Illinois, page 343:
      These were nearly all Yankees, regarded by the Southern people as a trafficking, tricky set, ready to sell a wooden nutmeg or any other sham. They, in turn, looked on the Kentuckians as a lazy, shiftless class, subsisting on hog, hominy and corn-bread, and willing tools in their hands.
    • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 75:
      "Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."
    • 1943 May, Leslie Prince Thompson, “‘Carpe Diem’”, in The Atlantic Monthly‎[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 August 2026:
      The enormous roe, like a sheet of golden corn-bread, is delicious, however, either as an hors d’oeuvre or with the fish, […]
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