entrelarder

Inherited from Middle French entrelarder, itself from Old French entrelarder (“to thrust into the flesh”) (1176-1181). By surface analysis, entre- (“(in) between”) +‎ larder (“to lard”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁə.laʁ.de/

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entrelarder

1. (transitive, cooking) to place pieces of bacon into meat; (obsolete) to interlard

   entrelarder un filet de bœuf ― to interlard a beef fillet

2. (transitive, figuratively) to furnish something all over by interweaving, or interspersing, often as to embellish: to adorn, to interlard

   entrelarder de vers un ouvrage ― to adorn a work with many verses

   entrelarder son discours d’épigrammes ― to fill one's discourse with epigrams

3. (transitive, figuratively) to insert, spray, bestrew something in various parts
   • 1978, François Cavanna, Les Ritals:

     L’escalier dégringolé quatre à quatre, trois étages d’odeurs entrelardées de vieille pisse et de raviolis, les chiottes sont à mi-étage, sans égout et toujours bouchées, heureusement entre chaque passent sous les portes les effluves des raviolis du dimanche, ça te requinque jusqu’à l’horreur suivante.

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• “entrelarder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012