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lard

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noun

mass noun

1Fat from the abdomen of a pig that is rendered and clarified for use in cooking.
‘The gravy was made from lard, chicken stock chili powder and cumin.’
- ‘I love making pastry, bringing my hands high up in the air as I rub the tiny cubes of cold butter and soft lard into the flour.’
- ‘A hard, solid fat such as lard or suet is most effective here.’
- ‘That's largely due to a shift from red meat to poultry, from whole to lower-fat milk, and from butter and lard to margarine and vegetable oils.’
- ‘The men conducted most of this heavy work, while the women boiled the leaf fat from the entrails to render lard for shortening and lye soap.’
- ‘They used syrup instead of sugar as well as substitutes for lard, butter, and meat to feed their families.’
- ‘Some of our mothers used to bake with lard or render down cod fat (from cuts of beef) and beat it up with lemon juice to provide shortening for baking.’
- ‘After the roll call, the prisoners' meal was a small loaf of bread, some lard or margarine and occasionally about 100 grams of salted pork.’
- ‘For the hominy stuffed bell peppers, in a medium sauté pan, melt lard over low heat.’
- ‘Place three chips of lard on top of each in a biohazard pattern, add a cilantro sprig, and arrange seasoned baby spinach leaves and cilantro leaves all around.’
- ‘Strolling past is an assault of the senses, the air thick with heady aromas of lard, spice and MSG.’
- ‘If you're really lucky, you may be able to locate a hunk of lard.’
- ‘In a large skillet, melt the three tablespoons of lard over medium heat.’
- ‘Sear the steaks quickly on both sides in a heavy pan which has been rubbed over with lard.’
- ‘Different types of fat, or fatty ingredients can replace the high saturated fat found in lard.’
- ‘We have organic beef with almost-organic Yorkshire puddings (I'm unable to find organic lard - presumably it is just too unfashionable in green circles).’
- ‘It wasn't just that no other country knew how to carve it or cook it properly - with plenty of lard - but that they mucked about with their food to hide its taste because it was of inferior quality.’
- ‘He wanted veal-flavored frozen yogurt dipped in lard, but they were out because Tom's Mom had just been there.’
- ‘Heat lard or olive oil in a heavy casserole dish and then fry the onions gently until they are soft and slightly golden (about ten minutes).’
- ‘And I've now got it in my head that the sugary oats bound together with sugar and dipped in syrup (with some extra sugar mixed in) are topped with yoghurt flavoured lard.’
fat, oil, cooking oil, animal fat
1. 1.1informal Excess fat in a person.
  ‘I've got to give up fags and shift some lard’
  ‘he's just a tub of lard’
  ‘I'm rolling in blubber, drowning in my own lard.’
  ‘Prof Barnett and his colleagues have been at the forefront of research into the understanding that fat cells around the waistline are not passive lumps of lard but are highly active, pumping out proteins and hormones.’
  ‘These are essentially sexless mutants who don't waste their energy on looking for Mr or Mrs Right for some fun in the spawning season but devote their instincts on overeating and laying on the lard.’
  ‘But then we would have, wouldn't we, with all the lard we've laid down for winter.’

verb

[with object]

1Insert strips of fat or bacon in (meat) before cooking.
‘he larded the joint with garlic and anchovies’
- ‘The meat is generally larded for this, and many consider it is best slightly underdone.’
- ‘For the sweetbreads, place the sweetbreads on a cutting board and, using a thin larding needle, lard with smoked bacon.’
- ‘For the scallops, place the scallops on a cutting board and, using a thin larding needle, lard each scallop with five strips of truffles.’
- ‘Lean ‘collops’ - thin steaks - are cut from a haunch and larded with strips of salt bacon fat.’
- ‘I just stumbled on a relatively brilliant, though non-period method for larding venison and other dry meat.’
- ‘A pork brisket is larded with garlic and onion, garnished with crushed pepper, salt and put in ceramic or an enamel saucepan.’
- ‘Continue to lard meat in the same manner until all larding pork is used.’
1. 1.1Smear or cover (a foodstuff) with lard or fat to prevent it drying out during storage.
  ‘farmhouse cheeses are dipped in wax or larded’
  ‘Mary has a fondness for Malpeque oysters; lards her chowder with double-smoked bacon, the way they fix it at Pearl; and accompanies her rolls (clam, lobster) with tall thatches of fried string potatoes.’
  cover, coat, grease, lard
2usually be larded withEmbellish (talk or writing) with an excessive number of esoteric or technical expressions.
‘his conversation is larded with quotations from Coleridge’
- ‘Listen to children when they speak and you'll be taken aback by the throw-away phrases that lard every conversation.’
- ‘By chance, Ch'ien makes this statement in a discussion of the Chinese translations of Ezra Pound, which may explain why the sentence is primarily in German and why the essay is larded with quotations from other European languages.’
- ‘These thick volumes, stuffed with tables and larded with long quotations in Greek and Hebrew, offered their readers long analyses of the dates of world history and the development of every imaginable calendar.’
- ‘Another alternative might be to become more aware of the impulse to lard your speech and writing with adjectives.’
- ‘The section on Ronsard, larded with long quotations and with cross-references to English parallels, recites axioms about the poet's progress standard since Henri Chamard's history of the Pleiade seven decades ago.’
- ‘It's interesting that he lards the book with homespun stories of his upbringing in Louisiana, because his philosophy of politics and government is very much a community based approach writ large.’
- ‘The dog-as-metaphor was effective for boiling down a message that's frequently larded with industry acronyms like LAN, WAN and NC.’
- ‘He lards his speeches with religious rhetoric and aggressively woos religious groups, a key part of his electoral base.’
- ‘Costello's novel, says Jenkins, ‘slips between genres’ and is larded with lists, anecdotes, memos, and ‘theoretical musings’.’
- ‘Maybe that's because a perusal of the document reveals it is larded with neo-Marxist slogans about the ‘gender power structure’ of society.’
- ‘Prepared either by Russian anti-Communist exiles or by the British security services, the letter was larded with palpable absurdities.’
- ‘The new book like the old is larded with statistical data, much of it in CD format.’
- ‘I sometimes feel I should apologise not only for my insistence on larding my prose with ancient, out-of-use terms like ‘a'coming’ but also for my practice of assigning odd names to the people who inhabit my world.’
- ‘I've noticed a lot of people larding their speech with that phrase lately.’
- ‘His rhetoric is larded with mythic grandiosity that amuses the jaded Western ear.’
- ‘It is not easy reading for it is larded with the bureaucratic jargon that marks the EU.’
- ‘When she talked, she spoke in husky tones and larded her remarks with double-entendres, and when I talked, she hung on my words and laughed immoderately at the faintest suggestion of wit in my remarks.’
- ‘The pro-book posts, while heavily larded with fulmination about right wing gun nuts, seem to have some good points, notable among them that the controversial research is actually a small part of the book.’
1. 2.1Cover or fill thickly or excessively.
  ‘the pages were larded with corrections and crossings-out’
  ‘True, the veterans spent the better part of six decades larding the hall with mediocre ballplayers who, not coincidentally, happened to be former teammates, friends, and acquaintances.’
  ‘Collectors have come to expect and respect SWV for putting their all into each release, larding it with as much added value as possible.’
  ‘Lobbyists grew adept at larding ambitious legislation with special-interest provisions.’
  ‘These performers, known as ‘artistes’ in the music hall vernacular, larded their routines with subversive, mocking or critical allusions to local characters, places and events.’
  ‘The city had larded the blighted 16-acre site with subsidies, but no developer wanted to take on risk of such magnitude in a borough that hadn't seen a new office tower in a quarter-century.’
  ‘Court Masque, which mixed dancing with speech, was heavily larded with flattery of the Royal patrons and was notable for spectacular scenic effects but with little in the way of characterisation.’
  ‘But they are unlikely to tell donors that the research chain is larded with folks who will make money on something that they are giving away.’
  ‘‘The Crud’ is my pet name for the copper, lead, carbon, moly and other burnt offerings that lard your bore after the bullets quit flying.’
  ‘It's been a bit quiet recently, and I got highly suspicious after Mike confessed to larding my logs with dummy search strings.’
  ‘Louisiana's congressional delegation larded the bill with $540,580,200 worth of earmarks, one-fifth the price of a capable levee.’
  ‘The CIA is larded with Russian specialists left over from the cold war, even as the agency struggles to recruit and train officers with proficiency in other tongues.’
  ‘I like a really old fashioned Christmas, where the decorations are larded with tinsel and as tacky as they can be.’
  ‘Weber wrote this little-heard work as a display case for his own keyboard virtuosity, larding it with spectacular runs and technical effects.’