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glair /ˈɡlɛː  /noun [mass noun]A preparation made from egg white, especially as an adhesive for bookbinding and gilding.Whatever pigments were selected or manufactured for use, the binding medium with which they were incorporated was either glair or a solution of gum....- This glair was also commonly used as a binder for pigments used in medieval illumination.
- Make your own glair using ingredients such as egg, water, sugar and gum arabic.
Derivatives glairy adjective ...- We use for delicate ornamentation what was once the dwelling of a glairy animal, near relation to the oyster.
- It is indicated when there is a clear, glairy, stringy fluid vomited, the nausea aggravated by smell of food.
- Synovial membrane is composed of a form of connective tissue, and secretes a glairy fluid resembling the white of egg, named synovia.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French glaire, based on Latin clara, feminine of clarus 'clear'. Rhymesaffair, affaire, air, Altair, Althusser, Anvers, Apollinaire, Astaire, aware, Ayer, Ayr, bare, bear, bêche-de-mer, beware, billionaire, Blair, blare, Bonaire, cafetière, care, chair, chargé d'affaires, chemin de fer, Cher, Clair, Claire, Clare, commissionaire, compare, concessionaire, cordon sanitaire, couvert, Daguerre, dare, debonair, declare, derrière, despair, doctrinaire, éclair, e'er, elsewhere, ensnare, ere, extraordinaire, Eyre, fair, fare, fayre, Finisterre, flair, flare, Folies-Bergère, forbear, forswear, foursquare, glare, hair, hare, heir, Herr, impair, jardinière, Khmer, Kildare, La Bruyère, lair, laissez-faire, legionnaire, luminaire, mal de mer, mare, mayor, meunière, mid-air, millionaire, misère, Mon-Khmer, multimillionaire, ne'er, Niger, nom de guerre, outstare, outwear, pair, pare, parterre, pear, père, pied-à-terre, Pierre, plein-air, prayer, questionnaire, rare, ready-to-wear, rivière, Rosslare, Santander, savoir faire, scare, secretaire, share, snare, solitaire, Soufrière, spare, square, stair, stare, surface-to-air, swear, Tailleferre, tare, tear, their, there, they're, vin ordinaire, Voltaire, ware, wear, Weston-super-Mare, where, yeah |