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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lard/lɑːd/
▶noun fat from the abdomen of a pig, rendered and clarified for use in cooking. ▶verb
- 1 insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat) before cooking.
- 2 (usu. be larded with) embellish (talk or writing) excessively with esoteric or technical expressions.
– derivatives
lardy adjective.
lardy adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. ‘bacon’, from L. lardum, laridum, rel. to Gk larinos ‘fat’.
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