pâté de foie gras

noun

A pâté of fat goose liver; the lowest-grade preparation of foie gras.

OriginFrench pâté de foie gras →
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Meanings

nounpâté de foie gras (countable and uncountable, plural pâtés de foie gras)

plural pâtés de foie gras

  1. countableuncountableA pâté of fat goose liver; the lowest-grade preparation of foie gras.
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    As for externals, it may be at once admitted that Messrs. [John Alfred] Gotch and [Hermann] Knackfuss, the architects, have resolutely refused to retain any of the features of the old building. The new palace is entirely in the neo-Gulielmian [of Wilhelm II] style, and is built from end to end of collo-concrete blocks of condensed pâté de foie gras faced with Parian marble.

    1911 March 22, “Our New Patricians. Palaces While You Wait.”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXL, London: […] The Whitefriars Press. Bradbury, Agnew & Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 206, column 3

Origin

  1. Frenchpâté de foie gras
  2. Englishpâté de foie gras

Unadapted borrowing from French pâté de foie gras.

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Translations

Indonesian pâté de foie gras
  • pâté de foie grasthe lowest grade preparation of foie gras
Norwegian gåseleverpostei
  • gåseleverposteithe lowest grade preparation of foie gras
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APA

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MLA

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