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floury

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flour  (flour, flour)
n.
1. A fine, powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a grain, especially wheat, used chiefly in baking.
2. Any of various similar finely ground or powdered foodstuffs, as of cassava, fish, or bananas.
3. A soft, fine powder.
tr.v. floured, flour·ing, flours
1. To cover or coat with flour.
2. To make into flour.

[Middle English, flower, best of anything, flour; see flower.]

floury adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.floury - resembling flour in fine powdery texture; "a floury clay"
fine - of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust"
Translations
floury [ˈflaʊərɪ] ADJharinoso
floury [ˈflaʊəri] adj
[hands] → enfariné(e); [scones, roll] → fariné(e)
[potatoes] → farineux/euse
floury
adj face, hands, potatoesmehlig
floury [ˈflaʊərɪ] adj (hands) → infarinato/a; (potato) → farinoso/a
floury [ˈflaʊərɪ] adj (hands) → infarinato/a; (potato) → farinoso/a


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"There's old Stephen Grant coming in," exclaimed Peg viciously, shaking her floury fist at him, "and looking as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
I remember one funny story about himself that made grandmother, who was working her bread on the bread-board, laugh until she wiped her eyes with her bare arm, her hands being floury.
If her countenance and hair had rather a floury appearance, as though from living in some transcendently genteel Mill, it was rather because she was a chalky creation altogether, than because she mended her complexion with violet powder, or had turned grey.
 
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