Entrelarder

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To thread strips of fat through lean meat before roasting it ; to mix or scatter extra material through a text or speech
2. Inserting bits of fat into meat to keep it moist while cooking ; filling a piece of writing or talk with inserted matter
3. To stud lean meat with pieces of fat for cooking ; to fill out a discourse by scattering foreign material throughout it

Etymology: The root is "lard," which entered Old French from Latin "lardum," meaning bacon or animal fat. Cooks larded lean meat by threading strips of fat through it, and French built a verb from that practice. "Entrelarder" adds the prefix "entre-," meaning "between" or "among," so the fat was pushed into the flesh rather than laid over its surface. The same root produced "larder," the storeroom. It came into English through Old French "lardier," a place where bacon and other preserved meats were kept, so the room was named for the fat it held.