flour
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[edit] English
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- flower (obsolete)
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Spelled (until c.1830) and meaning "flower" in the sense of flour being the "finest part" of meal
The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia flour (uncountable)
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- Powder of other material, e.g., wood flour produced by sanding wood.
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- (U.S. standard of identity): plain flour, wheat flour, white flour
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flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flouring, simple past and past participle floured)
- To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
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flour f. (oblique plural flours, nominative singular flour, nominative plural flours)
- Alternative form of flur.
- Ce fust en esté quant la flour [v]erdist e doint bon odour.
- It was in the summer that the flowers bloomed and gave off a good odor.
[edit] Cornish
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- IPA: [fluːɹ]
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flour m. (plural flourys)
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flour f. (plural flours)
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flour f. (oblique plural flours, nominative singular flour, nominative plural flours)
- Alternative form of flor.
[edit] Romansch
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From Latin flōs, flōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”).
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flour f. (plural flours)
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- IPA: /ˈfluːr/
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flour (plural flours)
- a flower
- a bouquet (bunch of flowers)
- (uncountable) Wheat flour
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tae flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flourin, simple past flourt, past participle flourt)
- to embroider
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- Cornish nouns
- kw:Flowers
- Occitan nouns
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- Old French nouns
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- Romansch terms derived from Latin
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- rm:Flowers
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