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flour

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English

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flour

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Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal.

The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

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flour (usually uncountable, plural flours)

  2. Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
    Hyponyms: cornflour, rice flour, rye flour, wheatflour, wheat flour; beanflour; bread flour, pastry flour, all-purpose flour, self-raising flour, self-rising flour
    Coordinate term: meal (precisely coordinate; broadly synonymous)
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]   A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
  3. (US standards 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.
    Synonyms: smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, wheatmeal, white flour
  4. Powder of other material.
    Hyponyms: wood flour; glacial flour, rock flour
    mustard flour
  5. Obsolete form of flower.

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Descendants

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  • → Drehu: falawa
  • → Maori: parāoa
  • → Palauan: blauang
  • → West Uvean: falawa

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Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
  2. (transitive) To reduce to flour.
  3. (intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

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References

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  1. ^ Deterding, David (2007), Singapore English‎[1], Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 27

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Etymology 1

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    From Middle English flour (“flower”), from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). Compare Welsh fflŵr. Doublet of bleujen.

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    Noun

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    flour m (plural flourys)

    1. (botany) flower
      Synonym: bleujen
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    Etymology 2

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      From English floor, from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *floraz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-. Doublet of leur.

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      flour m (plural flouryow)

      1. deck

      Etymology 3

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        Possibly from Etymology 1.

        Adjective

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        flour

        1. perfect
          Synonym: perfydh
        2. elite
          Synonym: gorbryvylejek
        3. eminent
          Synonyms: a vri, meur a vri
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        Middle English

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        Etymology 1

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        Borrowed from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs. More at flower.

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        flour (plural floures)

        1. A flower (often representing impermanence or beauty)
        2. A depiction or likeness of a flower.
        3. A virtue or benefit; something desirable:
          1. That which is unparalleled; the top or most superior.
          2. An exemplar or example of a trait or behaviour.
          3. Success or achievement in a contest; victoriousness.
        4. Flour (i.e. the best part of a grain)
        5. A powder; especially one which is white like flour.
        6. A woman's menstruation/period.
        7. (rare) Virginity; sexual abstinence.
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        Etymology 2

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        Noun

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        flour

        1. alternative form of flor

        Occitan

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        Noun

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        flour f (plural flours)

        1. (Mistralian) alternative spelling of flor (“flower”)

        Old French

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

        1. alternative form of flor
          • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 136 of this essay:
            non pasque les flours touchent a la chair nue car ce seroit doubte que les porres ne se clousissent et de fievre putride.
            but not that the flowers should touch the naked flesh because this may cause the pores to shut with a putrid fever.

        Romansch

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        flour f (plural flours)

        1. (Surmiran) alternative form of flur (“flower”)

        Scots

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        Etymology

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        From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin flōrem, accusative of flōs. More at English flower.

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        flour (plural flours)

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

        Verb

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

        1. to embroider
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