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floury

[ UK /flˈa‍ʊ‍əɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. resembling flour in fine powdery texture
    a floury clay

How To Use floury In A Sentence

  • King Edwards, for example are a dry floury potato that will disintegrate around the edges when boiled, so makes excellent mash, roast and chips.
  • It was before frozen peas, Robbo, Professor Robertson, who taught me botany, perfected shipping of apples and freezing of peas so they don't go floury.
  • Then the accompanying bouillon, a spicy broth scented with chilli and cumin with the customary soft, but not mushy, root vegetables and a sprinkling of firm, floury chickpeas.
  • One hand wiped itself on her floury apron while its mate attempted to smooth the flyaways circling her face.
  • Then, as you are about to come full circle, an arch selling St John's custard-filled doughnuts or perhaps blackberry jam is more your thing, dark rye loaves and floury white loaves. Observer Food Monthly Awards 2011 Best Newcomer: Maltby Street
  • It tastes kind of floury, like boxed mashed potatoes. Kansas City Star: Front Page
  • They came out dry and floury, like something one would expect from a wartime ration.
  • Herbert was not mistaken: he broke the stem of a cycas, which was composed of a glandulous tissue, containing a quantity of floury pith, traversed with woody fiber, separated by rings of the same substance, arranged concentrically. The Mysterious Island
  • Monique dusted her floury elbows and abandoned the bread-board. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • The Yorkshire was superb, the vegetables flavoursome, the roast potatoes crunchy, fluffy and floury.
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