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flour
English
Alternative forms
- flower (obsolete)
Etymology
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 flower. Partially displaced native meal.
The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?fla??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?fla??/
- (Indian English) IPA(key): /?fl?r/
- Rhymes: -a??(r)
- Homophone: flower (for people who pronounce flour as two syllables or flower as one)
Noun
flour (usually uncountable, plural flours)
- 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.
- (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.
- Powder of other material.
- wood flour, produced by sanding wood
- mustard flour
- 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.
Synonyms
- (U.S. standard of identity): smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, white flour
Coordinate terms
- (ground material): meal
Derived terms
- all-purpose flour
- bread flour
- self-raising flour, self-rising flour
- strong flour
Descendants
- ? Drehu: falawa
- ? Maori: par?oa
- ? West Uvean: falawa
Translations
See also
- bran
- farina
- meal
- smeddum
Verb
flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flouring, simple past and past participle floured)
- (transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
- (transitive) To reduce to flour.
- (intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
Translations
Anagrams
- fluor, fluor-, four L, furol, orful, rufol
Cornish
Alternative forms
- flowr
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [flu??]
Adjective
flour
- flower, choice (best of a collective)
Noun
flour m (plural flourys)
- (botany) flower
- flower (the best of a collective)
Synonyms
- blejen, bleujen, blejan
- flowren
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin fl?rem, accusative of fl?s. More at flower.
Alternative forms
- fflour, fflowr, fleur, flor, floure, flower, flowr, flowre, flowyr, flur
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flu?r/
Noun
flour (plural floures)
- A flower (often representing impermanence or beauty)
- A depiction or likeness of a flower.
- Success or achievement in a contest; victoriousness.
- A virtue or benefit; something desirable.
- That which is unparalleled; the top or most superior.
- Flour (i.e. the best part of a grain)
- A powder; especially one which is white like flour.
- An exemplar or example of a trait or behaviour.
- A woman's menstruation/period.
- (rare) Virginhood; sexual abstinence.
Related terms
- flourdelis
- flouren
- flouryng
- floury
- lilie flour
Descendants
- English: flower, flour
- Scots: flouer, flour, floor
References
- “fl?ur, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-09-25.
- “fl?ur, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-09-25.
Etymology 2
From Old English fl?r.
Noun
flour
- Alternative form of flor
Occitan
Alternative forms
- flor, hlor
Etymology
From Old Occitan flor, from Latin fl?s, fl?rem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“flower, blossom”).
Noun
flour f (plural flours)
- (Mistralian) flower
Old French
Noun
flour f (oblique plural flours, nominative singular flour, nominative plural flours)
- Alternative form of flor
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) flur
- (Sursilvan) flura
Etymology
From Latin fl?s, fl?rem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“flower, blossom”).
Noun
flour f (plural flours)
- (Surmiran) flower
Scots
Alternative forms
- flouer
Etymology
From Middle English flour, from Anglo-Norman flur, from Latin fl?rem, accusative of fl?s. More at English flower.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?flu?r/
Noun
flour (plural flours)
- a flower
- a bouquet (bunch of flowers)
- (uncountable) Wheat flour
Verb
flour (third-person singular present flours, present participle flourin, past flourt, past participle flourt)
- to embroider
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shortbread
English
Etymology
short (“brittle, of pastry”) +? bread.
Pronunciation
Noun
shortbread (countable and uncountable, plural shortbreads)
- A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.
Translations
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- shortbread on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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