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#* {{quote-book|year=1303|author=[[w:Bernard de Gordon|Bernard de Gordon]]|title=Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine)|passage=non pasque les '''flours''' touchent a la chair nue car ce seroit doubte que les porres ne se clousissent et de fievre putride.|translation=but not that the flowers should touch the naked flesh because this may cause the pores to shut with a putrid fever.|page=[http://www.infirmiers.com/pdf/jerome-vanderhaeghe-master2.pdf 136] of this essay}}
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Englisch

flour

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Pronunciation

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). For more see flower.

The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

Nomen

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flour (usually uncountable, plural flours)

  1. Powder obtained by grinding oder milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
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  2. (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.
  3. Powder of other material.
    wood flour, produced by sanding wood
    mustard flour
  4. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) 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. — Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge.

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Coordinate terms

  • (ground material): meal

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Verb

flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flouring, simple past and past participle floured)

  1. To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

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Cornish

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Pronunciation

Nomen

flour m (plural flourys)

  1. flower

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Occitan

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Etymology

From Old Occitan flor, from Latin flōs, flōrem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (flower, blossom).

Nomen

flour f (plural flours)

  1. (Mistralian) flower

Old French

Nomen

flour oblique singularf (oblique plural flours, nominative singular flour, nominative plural flours)

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of flor
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Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) flur
  • (Sursilvan) flura

Etymology

From Latin flōs, flōrem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (flower, blossom).

Nomen

flour f (plural flours)

  1. (Surmiran) flower

Scots

Pronunciation

Nomen

flour (plural flours)

  1. a flower
  2. a bouquet (bunch of flowers)
  3. (uncountable) Wheat flour

Verb

flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flourin, simple past flourt, past participle flourt)

  1. to embroider