Southern US and Midland US
: corn bread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried
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Examples of cornpone in a Sentence
Adjective
the comedian's cornpone wisecracks were old even in the days of vaudeville
Recent Examples on the Web
Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2022
It could be eaten more frequently and turned into different foods like hoecakes, ash-cakes, spoonbread, corn pone, and cornbread.
—Andrea Byrd, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2021
The next proprietor of the Old South was A.G. Craven, who made few changes from 1935 to 1946, after which the last owners added Mexican food and dropped the corn pone.
—Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 24 Aug. 2019
Softshell crabs are encrusted in cornflakes, served with spicy corn pone and hoppin’ john.
—Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 8 Aug. 2019
Noun
Brooks has attended with equal care to the quotidian details of each era (corn pone in the antebellum South, bebop for Jackson Pollock, mid-century-modern furniture for Theo).
—Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2022
It could be eaten more frequently and turned into different foods like hoecakes, ash-cakes, spoonbread, corn pone, and cornbread.
—Andrea Byrd, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2021
The next proprietor of the Old South was A.G. Craven, who made few changes from 1935 to 1946, after which the last owners added Mexican food and dropped the corn pone.
—Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 24 Aug. 2019
Softshell crabs are encrusted in cornflakes, served with spicy corn pone and hoppin’ john.
—Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 8 Aug. 2019
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“Cornpone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cornpone. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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