Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The leafy husk of an ear of corn.
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- noun The
husk of anear ofcorn .
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- noun the husk of an ear of corn
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Examples
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Jesus Estrada, that is, the cornhusk wunderkind from Mexico.
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Pick up the two long sides of the cornhusk and unite them.
Marcela Valladolid: Día de Los Muertos Marcela Valladolid 2010
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Fold down the empty top section of the cornhusk and secure it by tying a thin strip of corn husk around the tamal (the top will be open).
Marcela Valladolid: Día de Los Muertos Marcela Valladolid 2010
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Pick up the two long sides of the cornhusk and unite them.
Marcela Valladolid: DÃa de Los Muertos Marcela Valladolid 2010
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Tear a cornhusk along the grain to make threads to tie the tamale ends.
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Fold down the empty top section of the cornhusk and secure it by tying a thin strip of corn husk around the tamal (the top will be open).
Marcela Valladolid: DÃa de Los Muertos Marcela Valladolid 2010
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Beverly invited us to the table and served us a delicious succotash made from hominy and a couple kinds of beans; bowls of neon-yellow cold squash; somiviki (fine blue-corn flour mixed with water and sugar then wrapped in cornhusk); fry bread, yellow watermelon; and Hopi tea (brewed from greenthread or thelesperma filifolium).
Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010
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Beverly invited us to the table and served us a delicious succotash made from hominy and a couple kinds of beans; bowls of neon-yellow cold squash; somiviki (fine blue-corn flour mixed with water and sugar then wrapped in cornhusk); fry bread, yellow watermelon; and Hopi tea (brewed from greenthread or thelesperma filifolium).
Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010
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Beverly invited us to the table and served us a delicious succotash made from hominy and a couple kinds of beans; bowls of neon-yellow cold squash; somiviki (fine blue-corn flour mixed with water and sugar then wrapped in cornhusk); fry bread, yellow watermelon; and Hopi tea (brewed from greenthread or thelesperma filifolium).
Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country Rachel Dickinson 2010
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I went to a small, dark and dusty museum of "American Indians" in New York about 20 years ago which was epic FAIL I hope things have improved and came away with a cornhusk mask.
Mad, Bad, & Sad: The French & Indian War Fresca 2010
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