Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A meat paste, such as pâté de foie gras.
- noun A small pastry filled with meat or fish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small pasty In fortification, a kind of platform, usually of a roundish or oval shape, erected on marshy ground to cover a gate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A finely-ground
paste ofmeat ,game ,fish orvegetables , sometimes with theaddition ofalcohol .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from Old French paste, paste, pâté; see paste.]
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Borrowing from French pâté ("paste")
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