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Indian corn (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Maize.
   • 1623, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation‎:

     But alass! these, when they had maize (yt is, Indean corne) they thought it as good as a feast, and wanted not only for 5. days togeather, but some time 2. or 3. months togeather, and neither had bread nor any kind of corne.

   • 1828, Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, chapter IV, in Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826‎, volume 1, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey:

     Every house has a garden. Many meadows, like those in England, are enclosed with three rails, lying one above the other; Indian corn is cultivated in the fields; the grass was dry and withered.

   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 23, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:

     Here and there an effort had been made to clear the land, and something like a field had been marked out, where, among the stumps and ashes of burnt trees, a scanty crop of Indian corn was growing.

   • 1853, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Pomegranate Seeds”, in Tanglewood Tales, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 214:

     Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields. But, just at the time when my story begins, the good lady was very busy, because she had the care of the wheat, and the Indian corn, and the rye and barley and, in short, of the crops of every kind, all over the earth; […]

   • 1857, Eliza Leslie, “Autumn soup”, in Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book‎, Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson:

     Season them with pepper. Put them in; and after the whole has boiled three hours at least, take four ears of young Indian corn, and having grated off all the grains, add them to the soup and boil it an hour longer.

   • 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXI, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     It was a sort of scene which Adam had beheld almost weekly for years; […] he knew exactly how many grains were gone out of the ear of Indian corn that hung from one of the rafters; […] .

   • 1904 May, Winston Churchill, The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book I (The Borderland), page 3:

     In the hot days of summer, over against the dark forest the bright green of our little patch of Indian corn rippled in the wind.

2. A variety of maize in which the kernels are variously coloured, rather than being all of the same colour.

   Synonyms: flint corn, calico corn

3. A variety of candy corn that contains chocolate in addition to honey-based candy.

派生語

• corn (“maize”)

派生した語

• → Welsh: india-corn

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