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larder /ˈlɑːdə /nounA room or large cupboard for storing food.Before the days of refrigerators, when fresh food was stored in larders, Limax species were often encountered congregating around the rim of a milk jug or slithering over the Sunday joint of beef on the larder shelf....- She stored food in a walk-in larder, which was a heck of a lot colder than the fridge.
- On the ground floor there four reception rooms, a kitchen with fitted units, a separate utility room and two larders with traditional stone shelves.
Synonyms pantry, storage room, storeroom, store, food store, cupboard; cooler, scullery; British buttery, still room, butlery archaic spence OriginMiddle English (denoting a store of meat): from Old French lardier, from medieval Latin lardarium, from laridum (see lard). In the past, and in many peasant societies, the pig has been a vital source of food for the winter: it can be salted and preserved, and traditionally you can eat every part of it except its squeak. This is reflected in the word larder, which in origin is a place for storing bacon. It comes from the French word meaning ‘bacon’ that also gave us lard (Middle English), and the lardon (Late Middle English), a cube or chunk of bacon.
Rhymesardour (US ardor), armada, Bader, cadre, carder, cicada, Dalriada, enchilada, Garda, gelada, Granada, Haggadah, Hamada, intifada, lambada, Masada, Nevada, panada, piña colada, pousada, promenader, retarder, Scheherazade, Theravada, Torquemada, tostada |