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Definition of lard
transitive verb
1a : to dress (meat) for cooking by inserting or covering with something (such as strips of fat)b : to cover or soil with grease
2 : to augment or intersperse especially with something superfluous or excessive the book is larded with subplots
3 obsolete : to make rich with or as if with fat
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Examples of lard in a Sentence
a roast larded with bacon
Recent Examples of lard from the Web
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What happened in Trump Tower is the very reason that the U.S. Constitution and our legal code are larded with provisions to prevent foreign meddling in our internal affairs.
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The first half of it is larded with talk of foreign policy -- all built around the idea that foreign countries are playing the US for the fool.
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The more Jacobs lards his talky screenplay with blocks of explanatory prose, the less convincing or clear his story becomes.
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No one knows if Lynn can run an NFL game or handle the tedium of non-football details that can lard a head coach’s schedule and seemed to flabbergast McCoy at times.
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Turow indulges an almost perverse yen for accuracy by larding Goos’ speech with irritatingly obscure Australianisms.
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The coniglio alla cacciatora, or hunter’s rabbit, came as nubs of tender, gamey meat on a bed of polenta larded with cheese and butter, and the onglet appeared as great red slices of skirt steak, alongside al-dente chickpeas.
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Yet, Hornacek’s rotation was larded with rookies and unproven players against the Raptors.
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First Known Use of lard
14th century
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Definition of lard
: a soft white solid or semisolid fat obtained by rendering fatty pork
Recent Examples of lard from the Web
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Put the lard, cracklings and garlic in a wok or 14-inch frying pan, and set it over high heat.
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Put the lard in a large wok or a 14-inch skillet and set over medium-high heat.
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In fact, 82% of the fat in coconut oil is saturated, according to the data — far beyond butter (63%), beef fat (50%) and pork lard (39%), as USA Today reported.
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Turns out, lard used to be used extensively, before vegetable oils were adopted because they were considered healthier.
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Some cooks fry in lard, others in oil, or in a combination of the two.
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Cooked with onion, tomatoes and, yes, a little lard, the beans are half mashed and half whole.
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Recommended is the wat tan hor -- kway teow immersed in a creamy egg gravy, peppered with pork slices, prawns, vegetables and lard fritters -- or yu kong hor, the dry version topped with a raw egg and then stirred in.
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The two-day fest celebrates the nation's oldest outdoor market through food, live entertainment and memory-making spectacles such as the Grease Pole contest, a competition in which teams try to climb a 30-foot pole covered in lard.
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Origin and Etymology of lard
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin lardum, laridum; perhaps akin to Greek larinos fat
LARD Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of lard for English Language Learners
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: to put pieces of fat onto or into (something) before cooking
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Definition of lard for English Language Learners
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: a soft white substance that is made from the fat of pigs and used in cooking
LARD Defined for Kids
lard
playDefinition of lard for Students
: a soft white fat from fatty tissue of the hog
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