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单词 pasty
释义 I. pasty, n.|ˈpæstɪ, ˈpɑːstɪ, ˈpeɪstɪ|
Forms: 4–5 pastee, paste, 4–6 pastey, 5 -eye, -ay, 5–7 pastie, 6 -ye, 5– pasty.
[ME. pastee, a. OF. pastée adj. of ppl. form (L. type *pastāta), from Rom. pasta paste, i.e. something made of or with paste. OF. had also the corresp. masc. pasté (L. type *pastātum), whence perh. ME. pasté.]
a. Formerly, a pie, consisting usually of venison or other meat seasoned and enclosed in a crust of pastry, and baked without a dish; a meat-pie. Now usu. a small pastry turnover containing meat and vegetables (see Cornish pasty), or fruit. Also transf.
a1300Land Cokayne 54 in E.E.P. (1862) 157 Al of pasteiis beþ þe walles, Of fleis, of fisse, and rich met.c1300Havelok 644 Bred an chese, butere and milk, Pastees and flaunes.c1386Chaucer Cook's Prol. 22 Many a pastee hastow laten blood.1390Gower Conf. II. 208 And bad ordeine for here mete Tuo Pastes.c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 490 Venesoun bake,..Kut it in þe pastey.1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cxiii. 325 Botelles of wyne..and pastyes of samonde, troutes, and eyls.1659–60Pepys Diary 6 Jan., The venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.1717Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Abbé Conti 17 May, Bakers..with cakes, loaves, pasties.a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 432 A pasty of game and a flagon of hock.1877N. & Q. 14 Apr. 297 The Divisions of an Orange... The word ‘pasty’ is used in Cornwall, from the likeness to the shape of the Cornish pasty baked without a dish.1880M. E. Braddon Barbara xliii. 295, I sold my comforter to Billy Blake for a whortleberry pasty.1880M. A. Courtney in Courtney & Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 41/2 Pasty, a meat and potatoe or fruit turnover.1906J. H. Harris Cornish Saints & Sinners (ed. 2) xx. 194 When small, a pasty is a snack; when large, it's a meal... The home of the pasty is Cornwall.1966Times 28 Dec. 9/7 Cornwall is as protective about its pasties as Devon is about its cream.1972K. Stewart ‘Times’ Cookery Bk. xvi. 213 (heading) Chicken liver and bacon pasties.1978R. Busby Garvey's Code x. 119 Cooper collected a couple of pasties in a paper bag.
b. ? A confection; cf. paste n. 1 b. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. cxvii. (Bodl. MS.) Of þis serpente Vipera beth made pasties þat beþ icleped Crosisti tiriaci of þe whiche is made triacle þat remedy aȝens venym.
c. Comb., as pasty-crust, pasty-lid, pasty-maker, pasty-wench.
1311Letter Bk. D City of London lf. 133 b, Ricardus filius Gregorii le Pastemakere attachiatus..pro eo quod indictatur in Warda de Bisshoppesgate quod ipse est noctivagus.c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 631 Open þe pastey lid.1562Turner Baths 14 Beware of..pies and pasticrustes and all vnleuened breade.1584Cogan Haven Health iv. (1636) 27 Hard crusts, and Pasticrusts, doe engender adust choller.1631Celestina xv. 166 That old pasty-wench.
II. pasty, a.|ˈpeɪstɪ|
[f. paste n. + -y.]
a. Like or resembling paste; of the consistence, appearance, or colour of paste; esp. of the complexion: pale and dull.
1659H. More Immort. Soul ii. vii. §13. 197 Supposing that the Soul's Centre of perception..could be..seated in such dull pasty Matter as the Pith of the Brain is.1793Smeaton Edystone L. §185 A soft pasty substance.1864H. Ainsworth John Law iii. iii. (1881) 163 His fat, pasty face.1878Huxley Physiogr. 193 Little cavities..formed by the disengagement of gas or vapour when the matter is in a pasty condition.1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 388 A white pasty fur on the tongue is looked upon as a sign of atony and weakness.
fig.1884Pall Mall G. 12 Apr. 2 His pasty sophistries concerning prison discipline.1909Westm. Gaz. 28 Jan. 4/1 The pasty feeling of exhaustion usually experienced at the end of a long [railway] journey.1926E. O'Neill Great God Brown 100 A little dab of pasty resignation here and there—and even broken hearts may be repaired to do yeoman service!
b. Of or pertaining to paste jewellery.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. x, A pasty sort of glitter.
c. Comb., as pasty-faced adj.
1607Dekker & Webster Northw. Hoe i. D.'s Wks. 1873 III. 10 You pasty-footed Rascalls.1878E. Yates Wrecked in Port vi. 51 Fat, pasty-faced, straight-haired.
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