pâté
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pate"
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Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French pâté (“paste”). Doublet of pate.
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- IPA(key): /ˈpæt.eɪ/, /pæˈteɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -æteɪ, Rhymes: -eɪ
Noun edit
pâté (countable and uncountable, plural pâtés)
- A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables, sometimes with the addition of alcohol.
- 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 152:
- Two waiters brought in kipper pâté and thin toast.
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finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
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pâté m (plural pâtés)
- pâté (a type of liver paste)
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- “pâté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology edit
From Old French pasté, from Latin pasta.
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pâté m (plural pâtés)
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- pâté dé faie (“liver pâté”)
- pâte dé pâté (“pastry”)
- pâté d'pommes (“apple pie”)
- pâté statistique (“pie chart”)