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Title: Glaire
Original Title: Glairer
Volume and Page: Vol. 7 (1757), p. 698
Author: Unknown
Translator: Abigail Wendler Bainbridge [West Dean College]
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.517
Citation (MLA): "Glaire." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.517>. Trans. of "Glairer," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 7. Paris, 1757.
Citation (Chicago): "Glaire." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.517 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Glairer," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 7:698 (Paris, 1757).

To glaire is to put egg whites with a fine sponge on the surface [1] of the cover of a book ready to be gilded and burnished; one glaires in several coats.

Translator's Note

1. Plat