“flours” is a form of
flour
/ˈflaʊ.ə/ noun, verb
Forms flours flouring floured flower
- 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.
- noun (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.
- noun Powder of other material. “mustard flour”
- verb (transitive) To apply flour to something; to cover with flour. “Flour the surface before rolling out the dough.”
- verb (transitive) To reduce to flour.
- verb (intransitive) To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
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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). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal.
The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard. Flour bolt, in milling, a gauze-covered, revolving, cylindrical frame or reel, for sifting the flour from the refuse contained in the meal yielded by the stones.
- verb To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.
- verb To sprinkle with flour.
Etymology [F. fleur de farine the flower (i.e., the best) of meal, cf. Sp. flor de la harina superfine flour, Icel. flür flower, flour. See Flower.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “flour”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details