Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The string of egg-capsules of some large mollusk, as a whelk, Buccinum.
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Examples
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Just as they turned green-corn puddings into fritters and souffles, so they turned puddings and breads into spoonbreads.
VEGAN "SPOONBREAD" WITH GREENS, AND A HOMEMADE BISCUIT MIX Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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Just as they turned green-corn puddings into fritters and souffles, so they turned puddings and breads into spoonbreads.
Archive 2009-01-01 Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009
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But, excepting these vague hints, I could not find any bystander capable of giving me a further explanation of any point on which I inquired, than that it was 'an old custom;' or, if they wished to be more explicit, with a self-satisfied air, they would gravely remark that it was 'the green-corn dance,' -- which I knew as well as they.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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It was a little before sunset upon a pleasant day in the month of green-corn, that a young man riding upon a noble white horse was seen entering the great village of the Ottoes.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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Their green-corn dances, ball plays, war ceremonies, and manners and customs, are all fresh in my recollection.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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In autumn, the best feed will be the grasses of the pastures, so far as they are available, green-corn fodder, cabbage, carrot, and turnip leaves, and an addition of meal or shorts.
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Here they met to celebrate the green-corn dance and their other national ceremonials; and here the king and half-king and the princes and head-men of the various towns consulted together on important occasions, such as making peace or declaring war.
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Chili peppers or other pungent flavoring, and made up into slender rolls, each enveloped in green-corn leaves, tied at the ends, and baked in the ashes, -- resulting in a very savory article of food.
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton
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Just how it works is not easy to say, -- it is in part perhaps a matter of feeding, -- but the great art-producing peoples have also been great agriculturists, much given to the joyous expression of their relation to the land they live in by green-corn dances, cherry-blossom fêtes, and processions to Pomona.
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According to Haywood, who wrote in 1823 on information obtained directly from leading members of the tribe long before the Removal, the Cherokee formerly had a long migration legend, which was already lost, but which, within the memory of the mother of one informant -- say about 1750 -- was still recited by chosen orators on the occasion of the annual green-corn dance.
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