Meaning & use
Larding
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Inserting strips of fat into meat before cooking to keep it moist, or figuratively, excessively embellishing speech or writing.
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The chef spent twenty minutes larding the lean roast with strips of pork fat.
His essay was larding with obscure Latin phrases meant to impress the reader.
A note on using this word
The figurative sense of larding a speech with jargon or foreign phrases comes directly from the culinary practice of inserting fat into meat.
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embellishingstudding
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