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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

Nebbishy to the ninth, Paul trudges through the movie leading with his shiny white pate and enormous glasses, often wearing a parka whose gray fur lining might be an extension of his beard.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 9, 2023

With a sweep of his hand, he snatched off his hat, revealing a bald pate.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

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

Wheeler dubbed the result the no-hair theorem to emphasize that two black holes of the same mass and spin are as indistinguishable as bald pates.

From Science Magazine Jan. 7, 2021

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

When called upon, I delivered an effortless list of things that I detest: blood sausage, intestinal pates, brain pudding, I’d learned these words the hard way.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris




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