flour

Definitions

1. 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.
   uncountable, usually
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
3. 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.
   uncountable, usually
4. 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
5. Powder of other material.
   uncountable, usually
6. Powder of other material
7. Obsolete form of flower
8. To apply flour to something; to cover with flour

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“mustard flour”

“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.”

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