polenta
noun/pəˈlentə/
/pəʊˈlentə/
[uncountable]- a yellow food made with maize flour, used in Italian cookingTopics Foodc2
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- the flour used to make polenta
Word Originlate 16th cent.: Italian, from Latin, ‘pearl barley’ (a sense of polenta in Old English).
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