flour mill
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of flour mill
First recorded in 1800–10
Example Sentences
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Ukraine’s real-life version of James Bond, Artem Tymofeyev, is a bearded DJ who posted on SoundCloud under the name Tim and had worked at his father’s Russian flour mill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Electric Group then said they would rename the building and would not reference its flour mill origins.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
Remote and at times unreachable, the community has struggled since the downturn of the timber industry and closure of the local flour mill.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
A little uphill, a flour mill, its whitewashed walls reverberating with the clatter of mechanical grinders, cleansed the air with the smell of spices and durum.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022
He said that on December 3 he was in the Rising Sun Tavern, not far from the flour mill, collecting intelligence from Philadelphia agents.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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