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pate

[payt] / peɪt /
NOUN
head
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Foie gras is his favorite ingredient and a fixture on his menu -- used in his tartare presentation, to mount sauces, as a pate, and even for ice cream.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 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

Garcia takes Mexican standards including tacos, carnitas and sopes and reinvents them with local produce as well as flavors from other cultures, such as pesto, pate sucrée and hazelnuts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024

He was a tall man with a horseshoe of white hair around his pate and the stoop that came from years of field work.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

He’s raising the price of other items, like ground sausage and pates, to offset the higher costs of poultry.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 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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