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Cornish pasty en · NOUN

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Etymology

19th century Cornish + pasty

Meanings

1. A kind of meat pie, not made in a pie pan but with a large piece of folded-over pastry dough, crimped shut, then baked on a sheet. It usually includes meat and vegetables in a thick hearty sauce.
   • […] after we have removed some of the dust of our journey, we sit down to a well-spread tea-table, on which a noble Cornish pasty holds the post of honour. 1854, Chambers's Journal of popular literature, science and arts, W. & R. Chambers:

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Bedfordshire clanger

Translations (8)

pl Cornish pasty (a kind of meat pie) · ga pastae Cornach (a kind of meat pie) · fi kornilainen pasteija (a kind of meat pie) · is kornbresk kjötbaka (a kind of meat pie) · cy pastai Gernyw (a kind of meat pie) · it pasticcio della Cornovaglia (a kind of meat pie) · cy pasten Gernyw (a kind of meat pie) · kw pasty (a kind of meat pie)