INTERLARD Definition & Meaning

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interlard

[ in-ter-lahrd ]

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verb (used with object)

to diversify by adding or interjecting something unique, striking, or contrasting (usually followed by with ):
to interlard one's speech with oaths.
(of things) to be intermixed in.
Obsolete. to mix, as fat with lean meat.

interlard

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verb

to scatter thickly in or between; intersperse
to interlard one's writing with foreign phrases
to occur frequently in; be scattered in or through
foreign phrases interlard his writings

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of interlard¹

First recorded in 1400–50; Middle English interlarden, enterlarde, from Middle French entrelarder, equivalent to entre “between,” from Latin inter + larder “to cook with lard or bacon fat”; inter- + lard

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McFarlane interlards accounts of the search and snapshots of lives with a selection of other writings — stories, dreams, confessions, prayers, testimonies — all of which add diverse tones and hues to the proceedings.

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A medley of short scenes interlarded with violin solos, it lacks coherence; its argument never comes into focus and, most problematically, its women don’t either.

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The short businesslike sentences became interlarded and adulterated with screaming and emphatic profanity, but the cold, calling voice repeated and repeated and repeated unwearyingly.

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Kodo programmes are sometimes interlarded with Japanese folk music on flute and zither, but this time their show will reflect a return to basics.

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A mixed but mostly young crowd filed into the theater, interlarded with conspicuously older relatives of the show’s staff.

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