Definition of "corn-bread" [corn-bread]

• A kind of bread made of the meal of Indian corn. See corndodger, johnny-cake, and corn-pone. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Local favorites include salt cod with crumbled corn-bread, lamprey in red wine, or papas de sarrabulho—a steaming black mash that involves the heart, lungs, liver and throat lining of a pig stewed in the animal's blood."
• "The earliest TV dinners were packaged in silver foil trays and included hand-scooped portions of turkey, corn-bread dressing with gray, buttered peas and sweet potatoes."
• "Carl and Neil Fletcher started selling their corny dogs — deep-fried hot dogs dipped in corn-bread batter — at the Fair in 1942."