farina
Americannoun
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flour or meal made from cereal grains and cooked as cereal, used in puddings, soups, etc.
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Chiefly British. starch, especially potato starch.
noun
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flour or meal made from any kind of cereal grain
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starch, esp prepared from potato flour
Etymology
Origin of farina
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin farīna meal, flour, equivalent to far emmer + -īna, feminine of -īnus -ine 1
Example Sentences
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Homemade pastas, local specialties made with farina bóna and an array of traditional charcuterie and cheese.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
If farina and semolina bring to mind only dull and dreaded porridges of childhood, here they are only the bland, blank pages for upma’s complex pleasures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2016
When the going gets tough, temporarily choosing low-fiber "white carbs" like sourdough bread, farina, white rice, potatoes and crackers is appropriate to help manage symptoms.
From US News ● Aug. 27, 2013
Sergey was content to eat a little bread and cheese, and then run to the station, but Sasha always asked for farina.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2012
The calyx is divided into five segments, the corolla is quinquefid, and of the most delicate white, and with numerous antheræ tipped with yellow farina.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
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