noun
- plural of pone; types of cornbread, especially Southern cornbread baked in oval loaves
Usage: Southern U.S.; regional
Examples
- Grandmother baked fresh pones for Sunday dinner.
- The bakery sells traditional pones made with stone-ground cornmeal.
- She learned to make pones from her mother’s old recipe.
- The pones were golden brown and still warm from the oven.
- We served the pones with butter and honey.
- These pones have been a family tradition for generations.