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plum-pie
[f. plum n. 1, 4 + pie.]
†1. A pie containing raisins and currants; esp. a mince-pie. Obs.
a1660[Mock sermon] Brewerton Ch. cxix. Ver. xxxi, ‘And they did eat their Plum-pies, and rejoiced exceedingly’, (Bodl. Lib.) p. 6, Here now we are to consider what sort of Plum-pye this was, and how many sorts of plum pyes there are... There is your Christmas pye and that hath plums in abundance, that is your Metropolitan plum pye, tis the cream of all plum pyes, and in brief there is no plum pye like it... Mark but the ingredients..Minced pyes are beset with plums and spice... Your Neat's tongue..your Currants..your raisins. [Cf.17..Hist. Jack Horner i. 4, Jack Horner, in the Corner, Eats good Christmas Pye, And with his Thumbs pulls out the Plumbs, And said, Good Boy am I.]
2. A pie containing plums or prunes.
1830Maunder Dict., Plumpie, a pie with plums in it. 1846in Worcester. 1847in Webster. 1880Ruskin Hortus Inclusus (1887) 70, I lunched with Cardinal Manning, and he gave me such a plum pie. |