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flake

verb as in peel off

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All around me were crumbling walls that revealed their history in layers, like rings on a tree: from grey stone, to copper colored brick, to cement, to the green and white flaking paint.

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I returned with golden oil, salt like snow flakes and a warm sourdough loaf to join Maria José’s swish tomato.

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The company's founder, Will Keith Kellogg, is widely considered to be the inventor of corn flakes.

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They found that flake cereals with fruit “played more into people’s need for sensory pleasure,” Food Business News reported.

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It’s totally understandable to feel angry, hurt or embarrassed when someone flakes on you, and you might want to write that person out of your life entirely.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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