lard
noun
[ lɑːd ]
• fat from the abdomen of a pig that is rendered and clarified for use in cooking.
lard
verb
• insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat) before cooking.
• "he larded the joint with garlic and anchovies"
• embellish (talk or writing) with an excessive number of esoteric or technical expressions.
• "his conversation is larded with quotations from Coleridge"
Origin:
Middle English (also denoting fat bacon or pork): from Old French ‘bacon’, from Latin lardum, laridum, related to Greek larinos ‘fat’.
