moulue

Moulue is the feminine form of the French past participle moulu, meaning ground or milled. It originates from the verb mouler, which means to mill or grind. As an adjective, moulu/moulue describes products that have been crushed or reduced in size, typically through grinding.

In everyday usage, moulu and moulue appear in culinary and food-context phrases. The form chosen depends on the gender of the noun it modifies. For masculine nouns, the form is moulu (for example, café moulu, cacao moulu, sel moulu). For feminine nouns, the form is moulue (for example, farine moulue, fève moulue, noix moulue). In practice, many labels and recipes use the masculine form when the reference noun is unspecified or masculine, while the feminine form is used with feminine nouns to indicate the same meaning.

Common contexts include descriptions of ingredients and products that have been ground or milled, such as coffee, flour, spices, and legumes. The term can also appear in older or more formal texts, where precise agreement with the noun is maintained.

Moulue is not typically a proper name and is rarely used as a standalone term outside its grammatical role. It may appear in dictionaries or glossaries to illustrate gender agreement for French past participles used as adjectives. In English-language contexts, the concept is usually expressed with phrases like “ground” or “milled,” as in “ground almond” or “milled flour.”