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

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

The colonel’s ponderous, farinaceous cheeks were tinted suddenly with glowing patches of enthusiasm.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Tapioca, tap-i-ō′ka, n. a farinaceous substance obtained from cassava or manioc by drying it while moist on hot plates, so that the starch grains swell or burst, and the whole agglomerates in small lumps.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah