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Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
floure (plural floures)
- Alternative form of flour
1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Launcelot and Guinevere]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), So in this season, as in the month of May, it befell a great anger and unhap that stinted not till the
flower of chivalry of all the world was destroyed and slain;
Etymology 2
Verb
floure
- Alternative form of flouren
Etymology 3
Adjective
floure
- Alternative form of floury