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INTERLARDATION

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in⋅ter⋅lard

[in-ter-lahrd]
–verb (used with object)
1. to diversify by adding or interjecting something unique, striking, or contrasting (usually fol. by with): to interlard one's speech with oaths.
2. (of things) to be intermixed in.
3. Obsolete. to mix, as fat with lean meat.

Origin:
1525–35; inter- + lard; r. enterlard < MF entrelarder


in⋅ter⋅lar⋅da⋅tion, in⋅ter⋅lard⋅ment, noun
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Word Origin & History

interlard 
1533, "to mix with alternate layers of fat" (before cooking), from M.Fr. entrelarder, from entre- "between" + larder "to lard," from O.Fr. lard "bacon fat." Figurative sense of "diversify with something intermixed" first recorded 1563.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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