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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.

“A pasty complexion.”

G. Eliot.

Noun.

;

pl.

Pasties

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[OF.

pasté

, F.

pâté

. See

, and cf.

A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.

“If ye pinch me like a pasty.”

Shak.

“Apple pasties.”

Dickens.

A large

pasty

baked in a pewter platter.

Sir W. Scott.

Adj.

Like paste; of the consistence of paste.

Noun.

[from paste.] A pie made of paste and baked without a dish.