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| lard [ laard ] |
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white cooking fat: white, slightly soft, pork fat. Use: cooking, in ointments and perfumes.
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verb (past and past participle lard·ed, present participle lard·ing, 3rd person present singular lards) |
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1. transitive and intransitive verb add lard to meat before cooking: to thread strips of fat or fatty bacon through holes made in a lean cut of meat to keep the meat moist while cooking
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2. transitive verb include extra words in text: to include an unnecessary or undesirable amount of additional material in a speech or piece of writing
 larded with quotations
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| [14th century. < French, "bacon" < Latin lar(i)dum] |
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