Polenta Definition

pō-lĕntə
noun
Cornmeal mush, esp. as used in Italian cuisine as a main or side dish, sometimes containing cheese.
Webster's New World

Any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled.

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Other Word Forms of Polenta

Noun

Singular:
polenta
Plural:
polentas

Origin of Polenta

  • Italian from Latin crushed grain, barley meal

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Italian

    From Wiktionary

Polenta Sentence Examples

  • More than five centuries later (1320) Dante became the guest of Guido Novello di Polenta, lord of Ravenna, and here he died on the 14th September of the following year.

  • At Ravenna we find the Polenta family, at Rimini the Malatestas, at Parma the Rossi, at Piacenza the Scotti, at Faenza the Manfredi.

  • Donato, of the Lombard period, with Byzantine capitals, is interesting; Giosue Carducci has written a fine ode on the subject (La Chiesa di Polenta, Bologna, 1897).

  • Giovanni the Lame (Sciancato), a man of a daring impetuosity only equalled by his ugliness, had proved so useful a general to Giovanni da Polenta of Ravenna as to win in reward the hand of that potentate's beautiful daughter, known to history as Francesca da Rimini.

  • Mains range from £ 12.50 for polenta, mushroom and goat's curd to £ 21.50 for the sea bass.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOL

Words Ending With

ATANTA

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