Interlarde

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To scatter or insert foreign material, phrases or comments throughout a text or speech so that it becomes mixed with them
2. To fill a passage of writing or talk with additional words, quotations or details placed at intervals within it
3. To mix something into a body of material by inserting bits of another substance at regular points along its length

Etymology: To interlard was originally a kitchen operation: a cook threaded strips of fat or bacon into lean meat so it would stay moist while roasting. The word combines "entre," meaning "between," with "lard," meaning fat, and reached English from Old French "entrelarder," "to lard between." The sense then moved from the roasting pan to speech and writing, where it kept the same idea of inserting something foreign at intervals. A speech interlarded with quotations is a joint with fat threaded through it. "Lard" itself comes from Latin "lardum," bacon, which is also the source of the English word "larder."

Synonyms: intersperse, interpolate, pepper, sprinkle, season