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Polenta

noun
1.
A thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water.





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"Polenta" Quotes from Famous Books



... that his friendship with Guido Novella, the nephew of Francesca, made Dante refrain from entering fully into the incident, will not hold, when it is remembered that the cantos of the Inferno were written in 1300, seventeen years before the poet reached Ravenna, and accepted the hospitality of the Polenta house. Dante's infinite compassion is, therefore, the cause for the compressed ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker
... meetings of chief citizens to succour them. Donation from the King and from the 'Black' Charity Circle of St. Peter. Even the clergy are sending francs, so none can question their sincerity. Bureau of Labour besieged by men out of work, and offices occupied by Carabineers. People eating maize in polenta and granturco with the certainty of sickness to follow. Red Cross Society organised as in time of war, and many sick and wounded hidden ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine


Words linked to "Polenta" :   Indian meal, cornmeal, Italia, Italian Republic, Italy, cornmeal mush, mush


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