Cornish pasty

/ (ˈpæstɪ) /

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noun

cookery a pastry case with a filling of meat and vegetables

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Words nearby Cornish pasty

cornification, Corniglia, Corning, Cornish, Cornishman, Cornish pasty, Cornish Rex, Cornish split, Corn Law, Corn Laws, corn-leaf aphid

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How to use Cornish pasty in a sentence

Since The Great White Way was given that strange moniker in 1890, the majority of actors have also bore a pasty complexion.
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The article includes a depressing photo of pasty nerds as evidence.
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I leaned out of the window but recoiled with disgust, for the young man with the pasty face stood below in the churchyard.
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If you met him in a bar, he might be all likkered up and decide he wants to kick your pasty, yuppie ass just for the hell of it.
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Two years later, in 1953, he evacuated to Cornish and became a celebrity recluse.
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Some hidden magnetism burst from him like an aura, and his cold pasty face and light gray eyes flamed into positive beauty.
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When first seen it is said to have had a pasty consistency, but on exposure to the air it dried and crumbled into powder.
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This company has been anxious to get me to Holland, having heard of the duty performed by the Cornish engines.
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The Cornish tin, according to present evidence, was worked comparatively little, and perhaps most in the later Empire.
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If the metal to be cleansed is gold, you will see a pasty mass or amalgam, as it is called, of a yellowish tinge.
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