flour
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- flower (obsolete)
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
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.
Noun [edit]
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.
- Obsolete form of flower.
- that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave. — Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Synonyms [edit]
- (U.S. standard of identity): smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, white flour
Translations [edit]
ground cereal grains
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powder of other material
See also [edit]
Verb [edit]
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.
Translations [edit]
to apply flour to something
Anagrams [edit]
Cornish [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: [fluːɹ]
Noun [edit]
flour m (plural flourys)
Synonyms [edit]
Occitan [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Noun [edit]
flour f (plural flours)
Old French [edit]
Noun [edit]
flour f (oblique plural flours, nominative singular flour, nominative plural flours)
- Alternative form of flor.
Romansch [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin flōs, flōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”).
Noun [edit]
flour f (plural flours)
Scots [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈfluːr/
Noun [edit]
flour (plural flours)
- a flower
- a bouquet (bunch of flowers)
- (uncountable) Wheat flour
Verb [edit]
tae flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flourin, simple past flourt, past participle flourt)
- to embroider
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- English nouns
- American English
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- English verbs
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- Cornish nouns
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- Occitan nouns
- Occitan countable nouns
- Mistralian Occitan
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns
- Old French alternative forms
- Romansch terms derived from Latin
- Romansch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Romansch nouns
- Surmiran Romansch
- rm:Flowers
- Scots nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- Scots verbs
