Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A strip of bacon or salt pork used for larding.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of lardoon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A bit of fat pork or bacon used in larding.
Examples
“Students choose from daily entrees like 10-grain cereal, organic tofu scrambles, frisee salad sandwiches with house-made honey-cured lardon, poached eggs and sherry vinaigrette served with toasted brie on a baguette and ginger soy miso soup with arugula.”
The Huffington Post: Her Campus: The 10 Healthiest College Dining Halls in America
“The menu so far includes bacon hash, Bloody Marys with bacon garnish, BLTs, “butterscotch bacon bites,” and, just to get fancy, a “lardon salad” with poached quail egg.”
“Speaking of lardons, another Bacon quote today ... le lardon (lar-dohn) noun, masculine”
“The list of nearly 30 "social plates" includes pulled wild boar brioche sliders w/blueberry BBQ sauce, roasted oysters mounted with apple and salmon roe, lardon-studded crawfish cakes w/black bean puree, and boursin-stuffed "Shumai" with a salami wrapper and a salsa of cantaloupe, though if you don't want everyone sampling it you better say it's for Us3.”
The Huffington Post: Thrillist: Chelsea Manor: A Decked Out Club With Badass Bites
“We also savored the little bites of potato gnocchi in a red kuri squash, chantrelle mushroom, lardon sauce and sprinkled with parmigiano-reggiano.”
The Huffington Post: Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats, Drinks, Sleeps Where? In Napa Valley
“The Frisée salad is composed of lettuce (think of frisée as the fancy French word for frizzy) topped with a hefty handful of crispy little 'chunklets' of bacon (lardon), super thin slices of red onion, small croutons for crunch, and three enoki mushrooms for effect, in a perfectly executed vinaigrette from the people who invented vinaigrette (the French, that is).”
“Ben oui mon gros lardon demande beaucoup d'attention parce qu'il est excessivement sociable et tout et tout et comme il est celibataire il s'emmerde un peu beaucoup!”
“Enfin, qu'il foute le bordel quand je dors ne me derange pas, au bout d'un moment je me leve et pis tant pis mais ce qui m'enerve c qu'a peine debout POUF je vois MONSIEUR JASPER se coucher comme un gros lardon de tout son long ...”
“The kind of place where one of your six waiters will approach every time you put your fork down to inquire whether or not you've "finished enjoying your yuzu-entwined chantrelle lardon puree.”
“Je me suis meme permis en petit (gros) dodo mais bon meme avec les formateurs pas loin au bout d'un moment je m'etale comme un gros lardon sur la table pour ronfler!”
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arby Ew. Also reminds me of the Clapper. Is there a lardoff? Nov 22, 2009
myroblyte a strip of fat used in larding, esp. as drawn through the substance of meat, chicken, etc., with a kind of needle or pin.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lardon Nov 21, 2009