Cornish pasty

noun

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.

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Meanings

nounCornish pasty (plural Cornish pasties)

plural Cornish pasties · alternative Cornish pastie

  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

Origin

19th century Cornish + pasty

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Translations

Finnish kornilainen pasteija
  • kornilainen pasteijaa kind of meat pie
Icelandic kornbresk kjötbaka
  • kornbresk kjötbakaa kind of meat pie
Irish pastae Cornach
  • pastae Cornacha kind of meat pie
Italian pasticcio della Cornovaglia
  • pasticcio della Cornovagliaa kind of meat pie
Polish Cornish pasty
  • Cornish pastya kind of meat pie
Welsh pastai Gernyw, pasten Gernyw
  • pastai Gernywa kind of meat pie
  • pasten Gernywa kind of meat pie
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