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- noun Alternative spelling of
taramosalata .
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Examples
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A special of their own taramasalata may not remind me of that made by the mother of my Greek-Cypriot friend.
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Once the apogee of sophisticated entertaining in their dinky quartered tubs, these gloopy mixtures – thousand island, cheese and chive, the graveyard of a million splintered Pringles – were quietly dethroned, sometime in the late 1990s, by an invasion from the eastern Mediterranean: salmon pink taramasalata, garlicky tzatziki and, most successful of all, hummus, the colour and texture of wet mortar.
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The road from our villa led down to another great taverna at Alaties beach, where a lady served delicious aubergine dip, taramasalata, salt cod balls, sardines and perfect Greek salad.
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“No prints on it or other trace, except more taramasalata.”
The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010
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Put the bread to use as a scoop for the taramasalata, fluffy pink fish roe that suggests cotton candy by way of the sea.
Tom Sietsema on Agora: A restaurateur turns to Turkey for revamp 2010
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She does a fine extended riff on the pointlessness of taramasalata, but what about the pointlessness of their relationship?
Henry and Elizabeth 2010
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“No prints on it or other trace, except more taramasalata.”
The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010
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They will eat grilled octopus and taramasalata and fried smelt, crunchy heads and all, if said foods are handed to them without ceremony. —
The Goo Goo Thing 2009
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They will eat grilled octopus and taramasalata and fried smelt, crunchy heads and all, if said foods are handed to them without ceremony. —
The Goo Goo Thing 2009
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It spoke of full fat prawn cocktail and pad thai noodles and ready salted tortilla chips and taramasalata.
Of Dove And Other Demons juliette 2009
maesepedro commented on the word taramasalata
good when abbreviated to tara and then accompanied with pitta to form pitta and tara
January 2, 2008
whichbe commented on the word taramasalata
A yummy Greek salad.
May 7, 2008
mollusque commented on the word taramasalata
A veritable fountain of youth in our dolmades and taramasalata and even in our baklava, which didn't commit the sin of containing refined sugar but had only honey.
—Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002, Middlesex, p. 287
August 17, 2008
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word taramasalata
What a special word!
April 19, 2011