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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

An aromatic powder used in Italy in the manufacture of chocolate.

Parched maize, ground, and mixed with sugar, etc. Mixed with water, it makes a nutritious beverage.

pinole ‎(countable and uncountable, plural pinoles)

A coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks.
- 2009 February 11, Melissa Clark, “Third Time’s the Charm, Valentine”, in New York Times:
  But all of them also called for obscure ingredients whole cacao beans and a toasted corn flour called pinole, for example.

From Classical Nahuatl pinolli ‎(“flour, ground maize or chia”).

pinole m ‎(uncountable)