Crossword clues for floury
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Floury \Flour"y\, a.
Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.
--Dickens.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Resembling flour. 2 Covered in flour.
WordNet
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.