lardon
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
Definition of lardon
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)Meat strips used for larding, especially salted pork.
“Place three or four slices of lardon on top of the meat and cover it with a sheet of paper smeared with butter.”
“Too-lean meat or poultry can be “marbled” by the cook, with lardon and a larding needle.”
“They’d have had to take out a loan just to walk through the door. Not to judge, but I didn’t see Alta or Maya Watson as two women who were going to take a quick lunch of frisee salad with lardon or Thai duck confit with tamarind and pomegranate drizzle, certainly not at these prices.”
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noun
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(uncountable)Meat strips used for larding, especially salted pork.
“Place three or four slices of lardon on top of the meat and cover it with a sheet of paper smeared with butter.”
“Too-lean meat or poultry can be “marbled” by the cook, with lardon and a larding needle.”
“They’d have had to take out a loan just to walk through the door. Not to judge, but I didn’t see Alta or Maya Watson as two women who were going to take a quick lunch of frisee salad with lardon or Thai duck confit with tamarind and pomegranate drizzle, certainly not at these prices.”
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(countable)One of the strips.
“This is a hearty and satisfying soup that is made even more tempting by the crunch of crispy croutons and salty bacon lardons.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English lardon, lardun, from Old French lardon.
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