pasty
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Mr Pegg referred to the collection as "the pasty" due to the coins being wrapped in a cloth bundle which was barely bigger than a Cornish pasty.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025
And, of course, the town still cherishes and serves up the pasty.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
In a large bowl, mash the rice with a fork until smooth and pasty.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
He now mixes a pasty, cold wax in with his linseed oil and paint to create a unique concoction that gives the canvas surface a translucency that he sees as “parallel to the porcelain.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
And turning her back on me, she and the pasty man walked off toward the ticket counter.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
These are pasties, crescent-shaped hand pies that originated as a lunch food for miners in Cornwall, England, and have become a mainstay in Grass Valley, 60 miles northeast of Sacramento.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
She’s interested in adding regular savories such as pasties and sausage rolls, and maybe bringing new treats such as trifles or Eton Messes to her roster.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart joked that apart from the Cornish pasties versus American hamburgers, there wasn't a great deal of difference in how his team would operate for the UK flight.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2023
Cloake enjoys hers alongside summer berries and even adds a spoonful to her Cornish pasties, for "a touch of luxury."
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
“So’s my stomach,” replied Rio, who’d stopped in front of a takeaway stall with a display case full of pasties.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Beyond Meat starts off a bit mushier and pastier, but once it starts cooking, it breaks up and browns just fine.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
In the comics, he has at times been reconfigured as a heroic vigilante, not unlike Batman with distinctly pastier colouring, a thirst for bad-guy blood, and actual chiropteran superpowers.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2018
Viewers also have watched the various stages of transformation from human victim to full-fledged bloodsucker, with characters getting pastier, hungrier and scarier by the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2014
Every day the flabby cheeks grew pastier and the pouches under the eyebrows heavier.
From The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer
Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and Boo Boo.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
