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pasty

[pay-stee] / ˈpeɪ sti /




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If there's one thing the transatlantic cousins of Cornwall and Hidalgo will have in common this summer, it's that they'll be enjoying the World Cup with a pasty - or paste - in hand.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Watching Will Ferrell in prison booty shorts showing off his pasty white legs feels like a crazy way to soothe the Sunday scaries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2025

And, of course, the town still cherishes and serves up the pasty.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

Add coffee and and a dash of aminos or soy sauce and cook until pasty and the mushrooms have softened.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023

“Swap you for one of these,” said Harry, holding up a pasty.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

Greggs has previously said peoples' dietary changes led it to move away from its usual fare of hearty and high-fat pasties, cakes and pastries.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

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

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

A giant boar’s head came first in order, then pasties and whole suckling pigs, pigeons and geese roasted with feathers on.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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




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