"She has a beautiful brunette coloring: that floury white and the delicate pink in it.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells
She drooped in his arms, hanging her head and looking down on her floury hands.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
You are too floury for me.
"The Silent Mill"
Hermann Sudermann