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floury |
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Translations floury adj face, hands, potatoes → mehlig floury [ˈflaʊərɪ] adj (hands) → infarinato/a; (potato) → farinoso/a floury [ˈflaʊərɪ] adj (hands) → infarinato/a; (potato) → farinoso/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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