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sea pie en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From sea + pie (“a type of pastry”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, once a common food of sailors.
   • [L]ast of all, a prodigious sea-pye was presented, with an infinite volume of pancakes and fritters. 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

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fr (Quebecois) cipaille (dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish)

sea pie en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From sea + pie (“magpie”).

Meanings

1. (archaic) The oystercatcher (any of several black or pied coastal wading birds in the genus Haematopus that have a long red or orange bill and feed on shellfish).
   • In the West Bay we had pretty good sport among the sea pies and shaggs […] . 1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 24 May

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