PASTY

Pasty

A pasty, is a baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, the westernmost county in England. It is made by placing uncooked filling typically of meat and vegetables, without meat in vegetarian versions, on a flat pastry circle and folding it to wrap the filling, crimping the edge to form a seal. After baking, the result is a raised semicircular food item.

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pasty

Noun

  1. A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.
  2. A white person

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. A (savory) hand pie.

Adjective

  1. Like paste, sticky.
    These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well, they are very pasty.
  2. pale, lacking colour, having a pallor
    He is pasty-faced.
    He was feeling pasty.
    Are you feeling OK? You look a bit pasty.


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