lardonlardoonn.
Cookery.
One of the pieces of bacon or pork which are inserted in meat in the process of larding.
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a1525 (c1448) [implied in: R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 217 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 101 Quhill ye lardner [1568 Bannatyne lardner] was laid held he na houss. (at lardiner n. 1)].
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xiv. 98 The lardons, or little slices of bacon, wherewith I was stuck, kept off the blow.
1658 tr. S. de Cyrano de Bergerac Satyrical Characters xxv. 92 A lumpe of Veale that struts about upon its lardons.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery To Rdr. p. i When I bid them lard a Fowl, if I should bid them lard with large Lardoons, they would not know what I meant: But when I say they must lard with little Pieces of Bacon, they know what I mean.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery vii. 201 Lardoons..must be drawn through with a large larding-pin.
1884 Girl's Own Paper June 491/1 The process of inserting slips of bacon, called lardons, into lean meat by means of a larding-needle.
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