Its name is derived from Provençal words for "garlic" and "oil"

Usage examples of aioli.

Start with a thin-crust pizza, fried calamari with spicy lemon aioli, a cheese plate, or the signature fig and arugula salad, move on to braised pot roast with mashed potatoes and vegetables or mussels in a garlic, leek, and tarragon sauce with fries, and finish with a chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream.

The sandwich was good, with lettuce, tomato, artichoke heart, avocado, water chestnuts, and a lemony aioli, on thick slices of white bread that Pauline baked every day.

And little bowls of aioli all around to dip the fish and vegetables in.