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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
floury
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A roast chicken followed, with pale stuffing, a hot gravy and masses of floury roast potatoes.
▪ Even thinking about their blotched yellow and black skins and their squidgy, floury middles made him want to throw up.
▪ Her finger nails were shiny long and black, and her face was floury white.
▪ She stepped back a pace in the floury dust.
▪ Two wet floury potatoes were dished on to her plate but she couldn't eat them.
▪ Wiping her floury hands, Mrs Beavis answered the knock.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Floury

Floury \Flour"y\, a. Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.
--Dickens.

Wiktionary
floury

a. 1 Resembling flour. 2 Covered in flour.

WordNet
floury

adj. resembling flour in fine powdery texture; "a floury clay"

Usage examples of "floury".

Will wanted to do justice to their generosity, but the only thing he could easily swallow, apart from the drink, was some flat, slightly scorched floury bread like chapatis or tortillas.

We sat down there for three hours, by the light of a barn lantern, and drank lemonade and ate Mother's sugar cookies, thick and floury and filling.

The nut contains a floury endosperm, and though rarely employed in this country as human food is extensively cultivated for that purpose in Northern Europe, North America (where it also goes by the name of Indian Wheat) and in India and the East.

The bread seller raised floury hands, palms out insubmission, then bellowed for his apprentice.

She had gone a few meters to the outflow of Megapod Creek, where there was a clear dark pool un-contaminated by the floury glacial silt, and was kneeling there filling one of our collapsible 19-liter water containers.

The dust was floury, rising from the shattered ore body as the hammer-men swung their ten-pound sledges to crack the larger lumps into manageable pieces.