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FLOURY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does floury mean?
• FLOURY (adjective)
The adjective FLOURY has 1 sense:
1. resembling flour in fine powdery texture
Familiarity information: FLOURY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling flour in fine powdery texture
Context example:
a floury clay
Similar:
fine (of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles)
Derivation:
flour (fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain)
Context examples
She put her floury and horny hand into mine; another and heartier smile illumined her rough face, and from that moment we were friends.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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