pasty
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Mr Pegg referred to the collection as "the pasty" due to the coins being wrapped in a cloth bundle which was barely bigger than a Cornish pasty.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025
And, of course, the town still cherishes and serves up the pasty.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
In a large bowl, mash the rice with a fork until smooth and pasty.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
He now mixes a pasty, cold wax in with his linseed oil and paint to create a unique concoction that gives the canvas surface a translucency that he sees as “parallel to the porcelain.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
“Now let’s try this again,” Papá cooed into the two pasty girls’ ears as he kissed them and then turned around to look at us.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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
