Definition of FLOURY

Examples of flour in a Sentence

Noun a five-pound bag of flour mix the two flours together Verb The fish should be lightly floured before it's fried.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The subcommittee in February found Beech-Nut had used ingredients that tested as high as 913.4 parts per billion, and Gerber used batches of rice flour that tested over 90 parts per billion. — Taylor Avery, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021 Mesquite pods were a food source for centuries for Indigenous people in the Southwest, who ground them into flour. — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2021 To digest cereal grains like wheat, humans first have to remove husks and turn grain into flour. — Virginia Postrel, Star Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021 For the Pastry: Cut the shortening into the flour and salt with a pastry cutter. — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Feb. 2021 Salmonella and harmful strains of E. coli can creep into flour when the wheat used to make it has been contaminated in the field, or during processing in the factory. — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2020 Pulse ½ cup of the oats in a food processor until ground into a flour. — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 31 May 2020 To make it, cornmeal is cooked into a porridge, molasses is stirred in, and then yeast and flour are added. — Jessica Battilana, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2021 Fresh bagels can be prepared simply from flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and water. — Cynthia Sass, Rd, Health.com, 22 Sep. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour a jellyroll pan measuring about 10x15 inches. — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2021 Preheat the oven to 350F. Butter and flour a 9-inch round cake pan. — Kate Krader, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2021 Now, either flour a work surface and knead the dough by hand, or attach the dough hook and knead in the stand mixer. — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2021 Lightly re-flour your hands, the work surface, and the dough as needed to keep the dough from sticking. — Time, 12 Aug. 2021 Line 9-inch loaf pan with parchment paper, then butter and flour it. — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 28 July 2021 Generously grease and flour a 9- by 3-inch loaf pan. — Star Tribune, 14 July 2021 Lightly flour a work surface, then turn the dough out onto it. — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 1 June 2021 If the cookie is difficult to remove from the mold, very lightly flour the mold before layering in the dough. — Beth Segal, cleveland, 7 May 2021

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History and Etymology for flour

Noun

Middle English flour, flur "blossom of a plant, prime of life, best of a class, ground wheat free of bran," borrowed from Anglo-French flour, flur "blossom of a plant, paragon, best part, ground grain free of bran" — more at flower entry 1

Note: In the sense "ground grain free of bran and impurities," Anglo-French flour, flur was presumably originally short for flur de farine, "best part of the milled grain," which is reflected in contemporaneous Medieval Latin flos farinae. The Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch points out that flur became the ordinary word for "flour" not only in Anglo-French, but also in at least part of medieval Picardy and in isolated areas elsewhere (vol. 3, p. 632). See also W. Rothwell, "From Latin to Anglo-French and Middle English: The Role of the Multilingual Gloss," Modern Language Review, vol. 88, no. 3 (July, 1993), pp. 584-85. In English, consistent distinction in spelling of the two meanings "blossom of a plant" and "finely milled grain" was not made before the eighteenth century. Samuel Johnson's dictionary (1755) still enters both meanings under the single spellling flower.

Verb