tapenade

noun

ta·​pe·​nade ˌtä-pə-ˈnäd 

: a seasoned spread made chiefly with mashed black olives, capers, and anchovies

Examples of tapenade in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Frias Family Vineyard Prado 2022 has a complex bouquet of blueberry pie, saddle leather, black raspberry, and cassis that transform to flavors of black plum, ripe cherry, and black olive tapenade on the palate. —Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025

Delicate, delicious and well balanced mid palate rich with ripe fruit that includes red and black cherries but also earthier flavors of truffles, sage, gravy and olive tapenade. —Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025

The turkey sandwich came loaded with sprouts, olive tapenade, mozzarella and red pepper aioli. —Nicole Cobler, Axios, 28 Jan. 2025

At Four Twenty Five, chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s midtown palace of fine dining, dig into a lunch of butternut squash soup with kohlrabi sauerkraut and pumpkin seed tapenade and pan-roasted hake served with a hakurei turnip–jalapeno emulsion. —Ellen Carpenter, AFAR Media, 24 Jan. 2025

Word History

Etymology

French tapénade, from Occitan tapenado, from tapeno caper, ultimately from Latin capparis — more at caper entry 3

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for tapenade

• accolade
• ambuscade
• antegrade
• balustrade
• barricade
• cannonade
• cavalcade
• centigrade
• chambermaid
• colonnade
• countertrade
• disobeyed