farinaceous
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Baked spaghetti and macaroni dishes are almost impossible to make, because farinaceous foods are either unobtainable or rationed to near zero.
From Time Magazine Archive
The colonel’s ponderous, farinaceous cheeks were tinted suddenly with glowing patches of enthusiasm.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Mr. Pumblechook’s premises in the High Street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a cornchandler and seedsman should be.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Quinoa, kē′no-a, n. a Chilian and Mexican food-plant, resembling some British species of chenopodium, cultivated for its farinaceous seeds.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
In such Cases the Patient should be allowed no other Drinks, but what are already directed in this Chapter, and some Soops made of Pulse, or other farinaceous Food.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
