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white flour

[ wahyt flouuhr, flou-er, hwahyt ]

noun

  1. refined and often bleached wheat flour that has been processed to remove all or most of the bran and germ.


white flour

noun

  1. flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process


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Example Sentences

Let the moon sail by spilling white flour, let the stars fall among the tree leaves.

In the early years of the 20th century, people recognized that white flour was making us sick because of its lack of vitamins.

But in the late 19th century, we learned how to refine grain and make white flour.

But the beauty of white flour is that it meshes so well with our capitalist economy.

It is largely indistinguishable: all white flour is white flour.

As experience will prove, browned flour must be used in greater quantity than white flour or a thinner sauce will be the result.

Now only fine white flour is used, leaving a minimum undigested.

Follow recipe for White Bread (see No. 377), using four cups of entire wheat flour and two or more cups of white flour.

The Anthonys and Reads used white flour and real coffee on state occasions, but very few families could afford such luxuries.

“He has probably brought too much white flour for Uncle Ramon to care to climb more than he must,” said Luis.

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