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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A place, such as a pantry or cellar, where food is stored.
  2. n. A supply of food.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A room in which bacon and other meats are kept or salted; hence, a depository of provisions in general for a household; a pantry.
  2. n. The stock of provisions in a house; provisions as served.
  3. n. Slaughter.
  4. n. One who lards, as meat.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a cool room in a domestic house where food is stored; a pantry
  2. n. a food supply

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A room or place where meat and other articles of food are kept before they are cooked.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
  2. n. a supply of food especially for a household

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin lārdārium, from Latin lārdum, bacon.

Examples

  • “Having partly roasted the remainder of the birds, as well as the frogs and lizards, to assist in preserving them we hung them up in a shady place which we called our larder, under a thick branch, where we hoped they would keep sweet till they were required for food.”

    The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco

  • “It's similar to the English word larder, where perishable food and drink were stored before we all had refrigerators.”

    Rss news feed for Morning Advertiser

  • “The word "larder" is a nice one, because it means both a place where food is stored, and a supply of food, especially for a household.”

    Toast:

  • “So, a couple of hours and $200 later, the larder is well stocked once again.”

    And So This Is Christmas

  • “When the larder is dry, there may be also bacon racks fixed to the ceiling; but, if the situation should be damp, these will be better in the kitchen.”

    The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally

  • “Our larder is not too much encumbered with provision.”

    Act II

  • “And I don't know anyone who would say they have a "larder"-probably because what would have been in a larder, is in a fridge now.”

    Basic Kitchen Part IV: Pantry

  • “Among other things I've done in the past two hours: housing works (found book 3 of a trilogy my mother had started but I don't think she ever found books 2 or 3 yet), The Strand (a mere 11 books, $18 and change), and 12th Steet Books ($16 and change for 7 books, mostly Robert Barnard mysteries, but I also got a Colin Dexter Inspector Morse to try and an old non-series Lawrence Block, etc.), and a quick visit to the Westside Market since, obviously, the larder is bare.”

    Breakfast in Bed

  • “But to fit that collectionIn an airplane’s hold sectionTo get back to my larder is harder.”

    Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest

  • “And a larder is a place where meat etc is kept from O Fr 'lardier' - a bacon tub.”

    Basic Kitchen Part IV: Pantry

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