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Answer for the clue "Flour for puddings ", 6 letters:
farina

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 558 Housing Units (2000): 267 Land area (2000): 1.439631 sq. miles (3.728628 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.006989 sq. miles (0.018101 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.446620 sq. miles (3.746729 sq. km) FIPS code: 25375 Located within: Illinois ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings

Usage examples of farina.

It was Farina, and oaths were registered against him over empty beer-barrels.

They had the consolation of knowing that Farina was poor, but then he was affirmed a student of Black Arts, and from such a one the worst might reasonably be feared.

Dietrich Schill was deputed by the Club to sound the White Rose herself on the subject of Farina, and one afternoon in the vintage season, when she sat under the hot vine-poles among maiden friends, eating ripe grapes, up sauntered Dietrich, smirking, cap in hand, with his scroll trailed behind him.

Dietrich bowed, and passing Farina, informed him that the Club would wring satisfaction out of him for the insult.

She may have had another motive, for she took occasion there to whisper something to Farina, bringing sun and cloud over his countenance in rapid flushes.

The moon was shining down the Cathedral square and street, and Farina saw the stranger standing solid and ruddy before him.

He crossed to the other side of the street, and Farina followed out of the moonlight.

They determined to take up their position there again, and paced on, Farina with his head below his shoulders, and Guy nostril in air, as if uneasy in his sense of smell.

This crying on of the hound was called forth by a chase up the street, in which the Goshawk beheld Farina pursue and capture a stalwart runaway, who refused with all his might to be brought back, striving every two and three of his tiptoe steps to turn against the impulse Farina had got on his neck and nether garments.

Guy proved he could be tender with a fallen foe, and Farina with an ill-fated rival.

My son, Farina, is my only stay, and well returns to me the blessings I bestow upon him.

She dismissed the feeling, and assumed her own bright face as Dame Farina reappeared, bearing on her arm a convent garb, and other apparel.

The Thier strode on, and gave them safe-conduct to the prison where Farina was confined, being near one of the outer forts of the city.

By an expiring blue-shot beam of moonlight, Farina beheld a vast realm of gloom filling the hollow of the West, and the moon was soon extinguished behind sluggish scraps of iron scud detached from the swinging bulk of ruin, as heavily it ground on the atmosphere in the first thunder-launch of motion.

Suddenly a more vivid and continuous quiver of violet fire met its reflection on the landscape, and Farina saw the Rhine-stream beneath him.