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Added 9 October 2026

flour

/ˈflaʊ.ə/ noun

In Latin: farīna Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about flour at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain.

verb

Cover with flour.
flour fish or meat before frying it
Convert grain into flour.

Origin

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). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

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