Definitions
A protein in wheat and related grains that gives dough elasticity.
Word origin
From Middle French gluten, borrowed from Latin glūten (“glue”).
Used in a sentence
“The Radicall or innate, is dayly ſupplied by nouriſhment, which ſome call Cambium, and make thoſe ſecundary Humors of Ros and Gluten to maintaine it: […]”
“[H]is nose is running in bubbly gluten over his lips onto his chin […].”
“The tyrant machine is the female body, grinding and milling the pulp of matter, the gluten of human flesh.”
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01“Wheat protein”6 letters
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