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posole

posole

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A traditional Mexican soup made with large cooked corn kernels, meat, and spices
  • noun
  • /pəˈsoʊleɪ/
  • US
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  • At the party, guests gathered around to enjoy steaming bowls of posole along with warm tortillas.
  • bowls of posole
  • posole with pork
  • posole with chile

Examples

  • During the festive celebration, we served a large pot of posole topped with fresh cilantro and avocado.

  • "But I will definitely miss my mother's posole," laughs the actress.

    Blog text (28)

  • Juana, his wife, arrived bringing some tortillas, posole, and slightly warm coffee.

    Academic text (1993)

  • My mom decided to make some pozole for her birthday and it's green pozole de pollo.

  • So basically you put and in the carne and then the actual little thingies from the pozole and these taste so bomb huggy bro.

  • The comforting bowl of posole was the highlight of our family dinner on New Year's Eve.

Surface Forms

posole singular
posoles plural

Etymology

The word posole comes from the Nahuatl word pozolli, which meant 'foamy'. Cooks named the soup for the foam that appears when the treated corn is boiled, so posole now means the traditional Mexican corn soup often served at celebrations.