larder

[ lahr-der ]

noun

1. a room or place where food is kept; pantry.
2. a supply of food.

larder

/ ˈlɑːdə /

noun

1. a room or cupboard, used as a store for food

Word History and Origins

Origin of larder¹

1275–1325; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French lardier. See lard, -er ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of larder¹

C14: from Old French lardier, from lard

Example Sentences

During winter months, you won’t have a lot of fresh fruit in your larder, but you always have things like, flour, vinegar, sugar, and different ways to work around that.

From Eater

Part living quarters, part larder, these so-called middens can also include sticks, stones, bones, and animal dung—the packrat’s own, but also patties and hairy turds discovered out in the world and hauled back for safekeeping.

From Popular-Science

If there’s been a silver lining for me during the pandemic, it has been the chance to reacquaint myself with my kitchen and larder.

From Washington Post

The other, benign, face of the bocage was its role as an unbelievably productive larder.

From The Daily Beast

At home, war has focused their attention on that most Ukrainian of treasures: a larder of homegrown preserves.

From The Daily Beast

You have taken to gnawing on dried pasta, the only thing left in your larder after days of gorging.

From The Daily Beast

And the side dishes are going to be mostly true to the American larder as we understand it.

From The Daily Beast

But Washington State, Oregon, you guys have a totally different larder from ours.

From The Daily Beast

His table is well supplied from the choicest his larder affords and he cheerfully welcomes all to its side.

From Project Gutenberg

By good luck, he found, on examining the larder, that there were odds and ends of one kind and another sufficient for a meal.

From Project Gutenberg

However, before venturing to do so, we determined to try to replenish our larder with eggs.

From Project Gutenberg

He was made easy on this point, and, with an increase in our larder, became quite perky.

From Project Gutenberg

And that night she sliced up part of a duck with some cheese, and put it in a plate on the larder floor.

From Project Gutenberg