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Definition of polenta noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

polenta

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