flour

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flour

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Spelled (until c.1830) and meaning "flower" in the sense of flour being the "finest part" of meal

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Singular
flour

Plural
uncountable

flour (uncountable)

  1. wheat flour.
  2. ground or milled grain or cereal.
  3. powder of other material, e.g., wood flour produced by sanding wood.

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Infinitive
to flour

Third person singular
flours

Simple past
floured

Past participle
floured

Present participle
flouring

to flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flouring, simple past and past participle floured)

  1. To apply flour to (something); to cover with flour.

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  • IPA: /'flu:r/

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flour (plural flours)

Singular
flour

Plural
flours

  1. A flower.
  2. A bouquet. (bunch of flowers)
  3. (uncountable) Wheat flour.

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tae flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flourin, simple past flourt, past participle flourt)

Infinitive
tae flour

Third person singular
flours

Simple past
flourt

Past participle
flourt

Present participle
flourin

  1. To embroider.
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