flour

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flour

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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]

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Wikipedia flour (uncountable)

  1. Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
    1. (US standard of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of: certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
  2. Powder of other material, e.g., wood flour produced by sanding wood.
  3. 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.

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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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Cornish [edit]

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  • IPA: [fluːɹ]

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flour m (plural flourys)

  1. flower

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Occitan [edit]

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flour f (plural flours)

  1. (Mistralian) flower

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flour f (oblique plural flours, nominative singular flour, nominative plural flours)

  1. Alternative form of flor.

Romansch [edit]

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  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) flur
  • (Sursilvan) flura

Etymology [edit]

From Latin flōs, flōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (flower, blossom).

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flour f (plural flours)

  1. (Surmiran) flower

Scots [edit]

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  • IPA: /ˈfluːr/

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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)

  1. to embroider