flour

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A fine powder made by grinding wheat or other grain, used to make bread, cakes, and pastry.

   She mixed flour, eggs, and milk to make the cake.

2. 2
   verb

   To cover or dust something with flour.

   Flour the fish lightly before frying it.

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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