Pate
[peɪt] or [pet]
Definition
(noun.) the top of the head.
(noun.) liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
Typist: Trevor--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) See Patte.
(n.) A pie. See Patty.
(n.) A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place.
(n.) The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.
(n.) The skin of a calf's head.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Head (in a ludicrous sense).
Edited by Edith
Definition
n. the crown of the head: the head.—adj. Pāt′ed having a pate.
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Examples
- What a very finished, highly polished little pate it was! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is but too true doctrine, friend Wamba, however it got into thy fool's pate. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Quite the contrary however was Brummell, who, had he not covered his bald pate with the said model of a wig, would have looked just as usual. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Evidently he had looked for the bald pate of a thern. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- At a grand diplomatic dinner given by his chief, he had started up and declared that a pate de foie gras was poisoned. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- To this they took more kindly; he presently knocked it all into their smooth round pates. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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