HOW TO PRONOUNCE
flour
/ˈflaʊ.ɚ/
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What does flour mean?
noun
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- 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.
- Powder of other material.
More meanings (4)
verb
- To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
- To reduce to flour.
- To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
noun
- (obsolete) Obsolete form of flower.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈflaʊ.ɚ/
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In one there were some potatoes that had been frozen and were rotting, in the other was a little pile of flour.
When my lady awakes a servant brings her a cup of hot tea and a cake made of wheat or rice flour.
More book examples (3)
Make a thin paste with a tablespoonful of flour, the yolks of two eggs, two Spoonsful of Chablis, and a little salt.
But in the Dakotas, the labor of one man will deliver in Chicago enough flour to feed three hundred men a year.
The dishes contained baked meats, frijoles stewed with peppers and onions, boiled eggs, and California flour baked into a kind of macaroni.