pastey

comparative pastier · superlative pastiest

1. rareRare spelling of pasty.

   His pastey face was vaguely rat-like.

   1996, Dean Beeby, “The Stranger in Room 11”, in Cargo of Lies: The True Story of a Nazi Double Agent in Canada, Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.; London: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 24

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   But ſore inflamed eyes, accompanied with paſtey face, ſwelled or chapped lips, and ſwelled noſtrils, have been looked upon to be characteriſtics of this diſeaſe; […]

   1786, Thomas Kirkland, “On Strumæ, or the Evil”, in An Inquiry into the Present State of Medical Surgery; […], volume II, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […] and William Dawson, […], page 450

   We could not convince her that the pastey skin and scrawny hands meant that the baby was not well nourished; that he had the best chance in the world to develop a serious stomach or intestinal disorder.

   1913 December, Manthei Howe, “Feeding the Children”, in Alson Secor, editor, Successful Farming, Des Moines, Ia.: Successful Farming Publishing Co., page 66, column 1

   Those on the benches turned and ceased their drinking, the tapster, a large man with a pastey face and straggly beard, paused from drawing beer as the party moved onwards in silence to the long settle.

   1972, Eleanor Hyde [pseudonym; Frances Cowen], chapter 13, in Tudor Maid, London: Robert Hale & Company, →ISBN, page 170

   His shirt was plastered to his pastey skin, and the sweat poured from his puffy face.

   1984, Ron Olson, Three for the Bobcat (Bannack’s All-Family-Western Series; 1), Billings, Mont.: Bannack Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 76

   We sat and talked, tried to get the pastey food through the intake port of our suits (Jake was the only one who was very successful at this), and tried to discreetly use the waste disposal system in the suits with a minimum of fuss.

   1988 August, Duncan Long, chapter 10, in Anti-Grav Unlimited, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 60