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Claretta
Plants animals and natural materials · A Chymical Dictionary
At a Glance
The word. A historical name for the white of an egg.
A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 14; facsimile PDF page 342.
Historical Definition
Claretta is egg white.
Meaning
The entry identifies a specific portion of an egg rather than the shell or whole egg. That distinction matters in preparations: Annora, for example, includes egg-derived ash in a different material family. A reader should preserve the stated part rather than substitute eggs generally.
No further treatment is specified here. If a passage describes beating, separation or another preparation, that information belongs to its own account. The dictionary’s concise contribution is to decode the unfamiliar name into a recognizable starting material.
Places to Read
Annora. A name with two ash- or lime-associated identifications.
Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 14; facsimile PDF page 342 — Facsimile
Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Claretta ; compare Annora
See also. Annora