Definition of "pinole" []

• Meal made of ground corn or wheat and mesquite beans. (noun)

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• "My messengers had orders to bring the latter in the form of pinole, that is, toasted corn ground by hand into a fine meal."
• "Chia seeds were roasted and ground to form a meal called 'pinole', then mixed with water to form an oatmeal-like mixture, or made into cakes."
• "a sack of "pinole," some baubles for Indian ornament, some coarse serapes, and pieces of high-coloured woollen stuffs, woven at home: these constitute his "invoice.""