tapas
/ˈtapas
/plural noun
Small Spanish savoury dishes, typically served with drinks at a bar: [as modifier]: a tapas bar...
- Traditional Spanish tapas bars serve meat, cheese, tortillas and salads as the light evening supper, and Spanish wine flows freely, as does olive oil.
- Music includes live flamenco and the food does a good job of matching the design: a delicious mix of modern tapas like chorizo tortillas and tasty fish and meat dishes.
- Nibbling on dish after dish of tapas, mazzas Spanish style, while sipping wine, I observed my co-diners as they conversed in a leisurely style.
Origin
Spanish tapa, literally 'cover, lid' (because the dishes were given free with the drink, served on a dish balanced on, therefore ‘covering’, the glass).
Rhymes
- hole
- hole-and-corner
- hole card
- hole-in-one
- hole in the heart
- hole in the wall
- hole out
- hole punch
- hole saw
- hole up
- holey
- holey dollar
- Holi
- holiday
- Holiday, Billie
- holiday camp
- holiday home
- holiday job
- holiday loading
- holidaymaker
- holiday resort
- holiday season
- holiday traffic
- holiday village
- holier-than-thou