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Letabund (lae-ta-bund)
adj.

Definition:
Full of joy.

From Latin lætabund-us, from lætari 'to be joyful'

Real world usage
1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 505 Of quhois come this nobill king Edmound, As bird on breir wes blyth and letabund.

Usage
It seems incongruous to me in a word ending in -bund should have such a pleasant meaning. When I think of -bund words, I think that was such as moribund (at the end of life), cummerbund (at the end of fashion), and Balkansprachbund (a grouping of linguistics similarities among the Balkan languages). It's nice to see that letabund escaped it's unfortunate childhood and grew up to be a happy and well adjusted word.

aioli

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aioli, a sauce made of garlic, olive oil, and usually egg.  Basically, it's garlic mayonnaise.

Etymology:  from Provençal ahl (garlic) + òli (oil).

Like mayonnaise (generally composed of oil, egg, and vinegar), aioli is an emulsion (a mixture of unblendable liquids).
There is a Catalan variation (allioli) which uses no egg.  In this version the garlic is completely mashed and the olive oil is slowly drizzled in while the mashing continues.  Creating an actual emulsion this way is quite difficult; the egg makes it easier.

The basic idea has been around for a long time.  Apparently, Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23-79) referred to a very similar substance:  when garlic is “beaten up in oil and vinegar it swells up in foam to a surprising size".