Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗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. · Obsolete form of flower.
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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- Root classification mention*bʰleh₃-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionfleur de farinefr
- Doublet mentionfleuren
- Doublet mentionfloren
- Doublet mentionfloweren
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