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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

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

Stout, jowly Janos Slynt puffed himself up like an an-gry frog, his bald pate reddening.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The automaker says headliner pates on both sides of the cars may not be secured properly and could detach and hit drivers or passengers.

From Seattle Times Aug. 9, 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

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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