larder

UK/ˈlɑː.də/US/ˈlɑɹ.dɚ/

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Other forms: larders

A larder is a cool room or cupboard where food is stored. The kitchen larder, stock the larder, a walk-in larder.

It works by being on a north wall with a vent and no heating, which kept food for centuries before refrigeration and still does for anything that keeps better cool than cold. The name says it was first for storing lard and bacon.

Definitions of larder

1nounlarderA cool room or cupboard where food is stored.C1
“She kept jars of jam and pickles in the larder.”
- Said"Fetch the jam from the larder; it's on the second shelf, behind the flour."
- WrittenThe larders of old houses stayed cold in high summer, thanks to a slab and a north wall.
- UsedStock the larder with the dry goods you reach for every week.
- ContrastA larder, not a fridge. A fridge keeps things cold by machine; a larder keeps them cool by stone and shade. fridge →
- Not thisA cupboard by the cooker is not a larder. A larder is cool, dark and set apart.
- SimplyThe bread is in the larder. It is cool there.
Patternin the larder · a well-stocked larder · larder shelf / door · larder cupboard

larder is a store.

Remember it

It is lard + er: the larder was the cool room where the bacon and the fat were kept.

hooks ontolard

Where it comes from

Old French lardier comes from Latin lardarium, a place for storing bacon, from lardum, lard.

Latin
lardārium
Old French
lardier
Anglo-Norman
larder
Middle English
larder
English, today
larder

Middle English larder, from Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium. by surface analysis, lard + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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larder in the wild

Other common names include larder beetles, hide or leather beetles, and khapra beetles.
Dermestidae
A larder is a cool area for storing food prior to use.
Larder
In colder larders, larded meat could last for months, while in warmer conditions, the fat turned rancid within weeks.
Larder
Dermestes lardarius, commonly known as the larder beetle or moisture bug, is a species of beetle in the family Dermestidae, the skin beetles.
Dermestes lardarius
The sternum and legs of the larder beetle are covered in fine, yellow setae.
Dermestes lardarius

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Related words

lard

Definitions of larder

1nounlarderA cool room or cupboard where food is stored.C1

“She kept jars of jam and pickles in the larder.”

Said"Fetch the jam from the larder; it's on the second shelf, behind the flour."
WrittenThe larders of old houses stayed cold in high summer, thanks to a slab and a north wall.
UsedStock the larder with the dry goods you reach for every week.
ContrastA larder, not a fridge. A fridge keeps things cold by machine; a larder keeps them cool by stone and shade. fridge →
Not thisA cupboard by the cooker is not a larder. A larder is cool, dark and set apart.
SimplyThe bread is in the larder. It is cool there.

Patternin the larder · a well-stocked larder · larder shelf / door · larder cupboard

larder is a store.