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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
white flour
noun
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▪ Cut down on refined white sugar, and white flour, and eat more wholemeal, granary and brown products.
▪ Gerald was asked to try a diet containing no sugar or white flour and was given an anti-fungal drug, nystatin.
▪ In her white granny nightie and her white flour make-up Noreen could have easily disappeared in that room.
▪ It is largely because the bran is stripped from white flour that our Western diet has become low in natural fibre content.
▪ Recently it started selling beer, wine, coffee and white flour.
▪ The combination of one-third wheat to two-thirds white flour makes a light, crackly, and satisfying loaf.
▪ The refined carbohydrates - white flour, rice and pasta - should be replaced by wholemeal versions.
Wiktionary
white flour

n. 1 refine flour made solely of the endosperm of the grain, i.e. without germ and bran, often chemically whitened. 2 (context US standard of identity English) (form of exact synonym flour English)

Usage examples of "white flour".

It was the Dufur White Flour Mill, which operated from 1872 through the 1930s, using millstones that had come around the Cape of Good Hope in 1870.

The miller, the twenty-pound sack of white flour, and the miller's family were allowed to board a torpedo boat.

Did you know that brown flour with the bran still on it is better for you than white flour?

You couldnt buy flour, white flour, any more without taking four times the quantity of brown flour.

Those who could afford it ate bread and biscuits made with white flour and made mash for the chickens with the brown.

Forsythe, naked and half covered with the white flour that had spilled out of the barrels.

Or a Mason's Bap, that was my Dad's own specialty, baked upon the bottom of the Oven, white Flour in clouds, he'd sell 'em whole, or by the Slice.