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noun
A Provençal dish consisting of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers, anchovies, and olive oil, usually eaten with bread as an hors d'œuvre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
a spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: spread, paste
History
Borrowed from French tapenade, from Provençal and Occitan tapenada, tapenado, a diminutive of tapeno (“caper”), variant of tàpero, from Old Occitan tapera, from Latin capparis (“caper”). Influenced by Old Occitan tapia (“rammed earth”), referring to caper bushes growing against buildings made of rammed earth.
