verb
- to insert strips of fat into lean meat before cooking
- to enrich or embellish something excessively
Usage: culinary
Usage: often with ‘with’
noun
- plural of lard; rendered pig fat used in cooking
Examples
- The chef lards the roast with bacon to keep it moist.
- She lards her speech with unnecessary technical terms.
- The recipe calls for two tablespoons of lards.
- He lards the turkey breast before roasting it.
- The writer lards his prose with flowery adjectives.
- Different types of lards produce varying flavors in baking.