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pate

[peyt] / peɪt /
NOUN
head
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Pizza popped up as often as pate on plates, while one caterer from La Reunion has won social media adulation for his gifts of cari, a spicy dish popular on the Indian Ocean island.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

Shekoh Confections – Master Chocolatier Shekoh Moossavi creates hand-painted bonbons, sea-salt caramels and pate de fruits inspired by Persian heritage and French technique.

From Salon Nov. 20, 2025

With his bald pate, dark-framed glasses and knowing demeanor, he has become one of the foremost chroniclers of the world’s media barons and Manhattan potentates.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 15, 2025

Bánh mì is a Vietnamese sandwich served in a baguette, typically filled with meat, pate, pickles and spicy sauces.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2025

She remembered only the bruised smile and a few strands of dirty blond hair laid carefully over a bald pate.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

In France, where snails are eaten piping hot with oozing garlic butter or mixed into pates, importers had noticed Ukrainian snails making inroads into the market.

From Seattle Times Jun. 16, 2022

That proscription is known as the no-hair theorem because famed American theorist John Archibald Wheeler quipped that it meant black holes were as indistinguishable as bald pates.

From Science Magazine Sep. 13, 2019

Miss Dormer says “Hunger Games” fans often approach her to discuss Cressida’s unique “undercut” hairstyle, a style many acolytes of the books and films have copied on their own pates.

From Washington Times Nov. 19, 2015

Indelibly enigmatic, she tickles their pates but evades their clutches.

From Slate Feb. 27, 2012

“These are for you,” she says, handing Ashima a cellophane-wrapped basket full of tinned pates and jars of cornichons and chutneys that Gogol knows his parents will never open or enjoy.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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