pigeon pie

plural pigeon pies · alternative pigeon-pie

1. A savoury game pie made of pigeon meat and various other ingredients traditional to French cuisine.

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   No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of public entertainment in the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry.

   1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, “His General Line of Business”, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC, page 1