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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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†GARDYMANG, n. A larder, a meat-safe. Sc. 18th c. Gsw. Herald (3 Nov. 1931) 5:
The larder of a large house [in France] was the lardier or garde-manger, a term which, in its corrupted form of “gardymang,” was applied to the meat-safe or portable larder of our great-grandfathers.
