What does larder mean?
Larder means A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored..
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/ˈlɑː.də/ · noun
A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored..
He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.
Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.
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Larder means A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored..
Common synonyms include buttery, pantry.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.
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