“So, snow bunny, what should black women do? How do we...oh, how do I say this... cure our brothas of this widespread, pasty disease?” I didn't reply. Again, I tried to step away. Again, she grabbed my arm. 2010, James W. Lewis, Sellout, page 107:
He smoothed his tailored suit and red tie. "Boy, does it look like I ain't rich now? My pockets are already full of paper! Why the fuck would I want to risk doing business with some pasty cracker? For all I know, you a cop!" 2008, John Lacombe, Winter Games, page 184:
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pasty en · NOUN · etymology 3
Etymology
From paste + -y (diminutive suffix).
Meanings
(alt-of, alternative, in-plural) Alternative spelling of pastie (“a small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers”).
Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty-topped breast. 1989, Joe David Bellamy, Suzi Sinzinnati: A Novel, Pushcart Press, →ISBN, page 29:
"What's a pasty?" ¶ "That's what strippers and showgirls used to wear to cover their nipples in teh old, tamer days of yore. They were round paper disks with spangles on one side and paste on the other; hence the term pasty." 2009, Jeffry S. Hepple, “Mancha, Mexico”, in The Treasure of La Malinche, volume 2, Jeffry S. Hepple, →ISBN, page 164:
There really is no other purpose for wearing a pasty than to avoid being arrested for indecency. 2004 February 2, Jake Drake, “Janet Jackson and American Slut Culture”, in rec.music.opera (Usenet):
One of the experienced dancers dabbed a bit of rubber cement inside a silver-sequinned pasty and told Betty to place it over her nipple 2001, Irene Pence, Buried Memories, Kensington Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 52: