A floury clay. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The potatoes turned out to be what the Irish call "floury", and began to dissolve in the boiling water. From Wordnik.com. [questions from the peanut gallery] Reference
It tastes kind of floury, like boxed mashed potatoes. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
I mean money wise and not the actual floury dough. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Dishes Out A Little Over Half A Billion Dollars To Host G8 Summit] Reference
"Do you like me?" cries she, holding her floury arms aloft. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
It is quite floury, dry, and sandy, and therefore very light. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Bug may be known by its mealy, floury, or cottony appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
· Soft maize The grain has no hard husk, and it is very floury. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
He knew artificial whiteness only when it was glaring and floury. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
'And what should they be but floury -- seeing my father was a baker?'. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
"Now what comes?" said the little cook, lifting a red and floury face. From Wordnik.com. [What Two Children Did] Reference
This is the only place in London where you can rely on a floury potato. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
Longitudinal section of wheat grain, showing bran, floury part, and germ. From Wordnik.com. [School and Home Cooking] Reference
Hilysine varieties and other floury types are more susceptible to damage. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
Dean passed me, headed for the front door, wiping floury hands on a dishrag. From Wordnik.com. [Petty Pewter Gods]
Retains the lusciousness of the bean with the full floury flavour of the tuber. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 14, 1917] Reference
It is more resistant to storage insects like weevils than dent or floury maize. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Boil your potatoes and let them be of the firm, soapy kind, not the floury kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Belgian Cookbook] Reference
They seemed to have no discernible taste, but became a floury meal between my teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Zero Stone]
The plain was carpeted with floury gray soil and, most remarkably, grass and flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Riverwind the Plainsman]
Longer cooking, up to 60 minutes, makes the texture more floury, like that of potato. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 33] Reference
They seem to collapse physiologically and set floury grains that are useless as food. From Wordnik.com. [8. Sorghum: Subsistence Types] Reference
“Eh, ma?” said a floury young mill-hand, and leant in passing over the garden gate. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
Monday morning, when Mrs. Stokes, coming out of the kitchen with floury hands, inquired. From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
She grew fairer and plumper; her arms grew as “floury white” under her muslin-sleeves as. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Gentlefolk] Reference
She had a high colour which showed under the floury-white powder with which she dusted her face. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Charming Man]
THE RECIPEBoil and mash 1kg of big, floury potatoes, adding a thick slice of butter as you mash. From Wordnik.com. [Nigel Slater's classic shepherd's pie recipe] Reference
The dough changed shape and folded again, hi Zofia's strong, floury hands, a fascinating process. From Wordnik.com. [The Goblin Mirror]
Kwan chooses a vendor who is slapping what look like floury pancakes onto the sides of a blazing-hot oil drum. From Wordnik.com. [the secret sense]
And the short, stout little lady standing at the kitchen table, floury arms in a bowl of dough, looked the same. From Wordnik.com. [Heidelberg Wedding]
Bibb silt loam soils, usually level areas occurring on flood plain, are poorly drained, silty and floury when dry. From Wordnik.com. [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland] Reference
He learned how to pat the butter into the comfortable brown insides of the muffins that looked so cold and floury without. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
The yard was mostly potatoes now — the floury sort that were so good to have for dinner, but left hardly any room to play. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
His recommended reducing diet, not surprisingly, was "more or less rigid abstinence from everything that is starchy or floury.". From Wordnik.com. ['Good Calories, Bad Calories'] Reference
The village baker and his assistant came hot and floury from the bakehouse, bearing between them a great basket of fresh bread. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
“How pretty your eyes look, mother, when your eyelashes get floury!” said Laura, struck by the vivid contrast of black and white. From Wordnik.com. [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference
Biscuits that are crisp but do not crumble easily and have a softer, floury texture will probably be available in South Africa next year. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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