FLOUR

Flour

Flour is a powder which is made by grinding cereal grains, or other seeds or roots . It is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many cultures, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and political issue at various times throughout history. Wheat flour is one of the most important ingredients in European, North American, Middle Eastern, Indian and North African cultures, and is the defining ingredient in most of their styles of breads and pastries.

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flour

Noun

  1. Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
  2. 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, e.g., wood flour produced by sanding wood.
    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.

Verb

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


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