larder
[lahr-der]
- a room or place where food is kept; pantry.
- a supply of food.
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Origin of larder
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Contemporary Examples
At home, war has focused their attention on that most Ukrainian of treasures: a larder of homegrown preserves.
You have taken to gnawing on dried pasta, the only thing left in your larder after days of gorging.
And the side dishes are going to be mostly true to the American larder as we understand it.
Historical Examples
Their noon meal is long since over; and their larder is not—is not—extensive.
The Gentleman From IndianaBooth Tarkington
They had netted some white-fish over night, so their larder was freshly supplied.
Murder PointConingsby Dawson
His flock never allowed his cellar or his larder to become empty.
A Romance of the West IndiesEugne Sue
An inward cellar within the buttery, which may serue for a Larder.
The English HusbandmanGervase Markham
His larder, his cellar, and his barns, were by degrees exhausted.
Christmas: Its Origin and AssociationsWilliam Francis Dawson
larder
- a room or cupboard, used as a store for food
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Word Origin
C14: from Old French lardier, from lard
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Word Origin and History for larder
n.
c.1300, "supply of salt pork, bacon, and other meats," later in reference to the room for processing and storing such (late 14c.), from Anglo-French larder, Old French lardier "a place for meats," from Medieval Latin lardarium "a room for meats," from Latin lardum "lard, bacon" (see lard (n.)). Meaning "department of the royal household or of a monastic house in charge of stored meats" is mid-15c. Surname Lardner "person in charge of a larder" is attested from mid-12c.
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