meat-pie

plural meat-pies

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of meat pie.

   You can use the potato crust, which is very wholesome and good, for any kind of meat-pie.

   1874, Marion Harland [pseudonym; Mary Virginia Terhune], Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., […], page 105

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   Now, my dears, let us see what we have here! First of all, meat-pie. Shall I give you a piece of meat-pie, dear Mademoiselle Natalie!—it is the same pie that you liked so much the night before last at Basle, and, fortunately, is not all gone yet!

   1857, Amelia B[lanford] Edwards, The Ladder of Life: A Heart-History, London: Geo[rge] Routledge & Co., […]. New York: […], page 100

   “Well, we’re to have meat-pie,” said Bettina, “and I must look up a good recipe for it now——” “Meat-pie? Delicious!” said Alice.

   1922, Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron, A Thousand Ways to Please a Family with Bettina’s Best Recipes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, page 22

   LIZ LARSEN and Terrence Mann sing foul puns about human-infused meat-pies in “Sweeney Todd” at Connecticut Repertory Theatre through July 1.

   2018 June 26, Christopher Arnott, “Terrence Mann Kills As Demon Barber”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXXII, number 177, Hartford, Conn., page D1