pinole

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Mexican Spanish pinole, from Classical Nahuatl pinolli (“flour, ground maize or chia”).

At 9 o'clock on the first day of the fire Mayor Schmitz sent a tug to Pinole for several cans of the explosive. — Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, Trumbull White
Pretty nearly everything to eat, to wear, or to furnish the house is on hand--or rather in loose piles--fish, duck's eggs, meat, rice, pinole, fruit of forty kinds, straw hats, straw sandals, straw raincoats, tin ware from America, wooden ware from Holland, and clay stoves "made in Manila." — Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania, Jewett C. (Jewett Castello) Gilson

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