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cornfloured en · ADJ

Etymology

From cornflour + -ed.

Meanings

1. With cornflour.
   • The gloopy lemon filling was never too sweet, never too cornfloured, and the top rose cloud-like, stepped, a breath of weightless meringue with that final, brittle brown top that a spoon had to crunch through before meeting the gooey middle and the smooth, tart lemon. 2000, Tamasin Day-Lewis, The Art of the Tart, London: Cassell & Co, →ISBN, page 90:
   • Take one section of dough out of freezer and roll out on a cornfloured board. 2007, Sue Dengate, The Failsafe Cookbook: Reducing Food Chemicals for Calm, Happy Families, Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 137:
   • Smooth the icing over the top and down the side(s) of the cake with cornfloured hands (Fig. ii). 1987, Mandy Pryor, Cakes & Cake Decorating (Supercook), Cambridge, Cambs.: Martin Books, →ISBN, page 89:

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Synonyms

cornfloury