[Sca-cooks] flower vs flour

[Daniel Myers]

On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:18 PM, Pat wrote:

> FWIW
> In modern French, Flower is Fluer, Flour is Farine.  In French,  
> they do not sound like the same word, so it is unlikely they would  
> have been interchangeable.

True, but things do change.

Another interesting note:  Cotgrave's 1611 French/English Dictionary  
gives the following definition:

"Fleur de farine.  Flower, or the finest meale, also, meal-dust or  
mill-dust."

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cotgrave/448small.html

- Doc


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