flour
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flour/ˈflaʊə(r)/
▶noun a powder obtained by grinding grain, used to make bread, cakes, and pastry. ▶verb
- 1 sprinkle with flour.
- 2 US grind (grain) into flour.
– origin ME: a specific use of flower in the sense ‘the best part’, used orig. to mean ‘the finest quality of ground wheat’.
'flour' also found in these Oxford entries:
aleurone
- batter
- blini
- Bombay mix
- boxty
- bran
- bread
- breadfruit
- browning
- buckwheat
- cake
- cake flour
- Christmas pudding
- combine
- corn dog
- cornflakes
- cornflour
- cornmeal
- crumble
- damper
- digestive
- dosa
- dough
- duff
- durum wheat
- farina
- farl
- fleur-de-lis
- fleuron
- flory
- floury
- flower
- gnocchi
- graham
- grist
- halva
- hasty pudding
- hoecake
- johnnycake
- kvass
- laddu
- manchet
- masa
- mesquite bean
- middling
- mill
- millet
- noodle
- pakora
