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English Dictionary: Pasty by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Pasty
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pasty
adj
  1. resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white"
    Synonym(s): pasty, pastelike
  2. having the sticky properties of an adhesive
    Synonym(s): gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous
n
  1. small meat pie or turnover
  2. (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pasty \Pas"ty\, a.
      Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. [bd]A pasty
      complexion.[b8] --G. Eliot.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pasty \Pas"ty\, n.; pl. {Pasties}. [OF. past[82], F. p[83]t[82].
      See {Paste}, and cf. {Patty}.]
      A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a
      crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a
      dish; a meat pie. [bd]If ye pinch me like a pasty.[b8]
      --Shak. [bd]Apple pasties.[b8] --Dickens.
  
               A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
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