Flour vs Lour - What's the difference?
flour | lour |
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
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Powder of other material.
To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
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To frown; to look sullen.
* (rfdate) John Dryden:
As verbs the difference between flour and lour
is that flour is to apply flour to something; to cover with flour while lour is to be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.As a noun flour
is powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.flour
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* flower (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia flour) (en-noun)citation, passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
- wood flour , produced by sanding wood
- mustard flour
- that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave.'' — Thomas Hardy, ''The Mayor of Casterbridge .
Synonyms
* smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, white flourDerived terms
* self-raising flour, self-rising flourSee also
* bran * farina * meal * smeddumAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----lour
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*Verb
(en verb)- And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our hou?e
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
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- But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.