a. [f. FLOUR sb. + -LESS.] Mode without flour.

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1880.  Vernon Lee, Belcaro, iv. 79. For the lean and tattered peasant, with the dull, apathetic resignation of the starved and goaded ox or horse, sleeping on the damp clay of his hut and eating strange flourless bread, and stranger carrion flesh, there came a world of the supernatural, different from that of the monk or the artisan, at once terrifying and consoling.

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