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floursack

floursack noun: a sack for flour.

floursack: a sack for flour
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Noun

floursack (plural floursacks)

  1. A sack for flour.
    • She brought us her quilting scraps in an old floursack, ready to be used in our crafting project.
    Synonyms:
    mealbag, meal-poke
  2. Sackcloth. (In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, floursack cloth was often reused for making clothing, quilts, or rags, and this tradition continues to some extent today.)
    • Near-synonyms: hessian, burlap
    • Let's be honest: the outfit hardly matters — you could put her in a dress made of floursack and she'd still look fabulous.
    Synonyms:
    hessian, burlap

Synonyms of floursack

Forms of floursack

pluralfloursacks

Origin of floursack

From flour + sack.

Questions about floursack

What does floursack mean?
Floursack means a sack for flour.
What part of speech is floursack?
Floursack is a noun.
What is the plural of floursack?
The plural of floursack is floursacks.

Words near floursack in the dictionary

  1. Flournoys
  2. flourodeoxyglucose
  3. flourodeoxyuridine
  4. flouroquinolone
  5. flours
  6. floursack
  7. floursacks
  8. floury
  9. floury baker
  10. floury bakers
  11. floury miller

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