"cornfloury" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From cornflour + -y.",
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      "form": "more cornfloury",
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          "ref": "1969, Georgina Horley, Good Food on a Budget, London: The Cookery Book Club, published 1970, page 466:",
          "text": "They contain tiny amounts of unrecognizable stewed-to-a-rag meat in a sea of pasta and cornfloury gravy, heavily charged with onion essence and monosodium glutamate, that bringer-out of flavour that figures in so many convenience foods.",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Andy Bates, Modern Twists on Classic Dishes, Bedlinog: Accent Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 50:",
          "text": "Rough-ground cornfloury polenta binds the patties together.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Tamasin Day-Lewis, “Tea at Fortnum’s Fountain”, in Smart Tart: Observations from My Cooking Life, London: Unbound, →ISBN, page 13:",
          "text": "Things like the pudding we christened ‘Purple Puke’ that we imagined grew under the school quad and Manchester tart, which was a heinous concoction of grey margarined pastry, turnip jam, cornfloury custard and a dusting of toenails on top, the hideous, desiccated coconut flakes that stuck in teeth and craw.",
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          "ref": "1974 October 17, Delia Smith, “How are your apples and pears?”, in Evening Chronicle, number 30,308, Newcastle upon Tyne, page 4:",
          "text": "Cook the custard over a low heat, stirring constantly until the custard thickens and no cornfloury taste remains.",
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          "ref": "1989, Nigella Lawson, review, in The Spectator, volume 262, numbers 8373–8385, London, →ISSN, page 35, column 3:",
          "text": "The chef did not even manage to redeem himself with the puddings: the crème brulée (‘. . . with wild berries. Totally decadent!’) had a gritty texture and cornfloury taste, the chilled apple crêpe turned out to be an icy triangular wedge of apple lined with a strip of pancake.",
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          "ref": "1998, Kate Thompson, chapter 1, in It Means Mischief, Dublin: New Island Books, →ISBN, page 22:",
          "text": "Deirdre took the biscuit and bit into it without tasting it. She still had that cornfloury feeling in her mouth.",
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