mince pie
Americannoun
noun
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a small round pastry tart filled with mincemeat
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slang:Cockney_rhyming (usually plural) an eye
Etymology
Origin of mince pie
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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The family also leave a carrot and mince pie out for Father Christmas, but also some Christmas porridge for the Nisse - the Norwegian version of Santa Claus.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2023
Incidentally, this may well be the first recorded mention of a shop-bought mince pie, and the first shade of snobbery about them.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2021
In 1662, just two years after Charles II's decree, Samuel Pepys wrote about mince pies in his famous diary, "I sent for a mince pie abroad, my wife not being well to make any herself."
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2021
Other shows, like the National Theater of Scotland’s “Rapunzel,” felt as flat as a sat-on mince pie.
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2020
Campbell offered the Americans food now, steaks and mashed potatoes and gravy and mince pie, if they would join the Free American Corps.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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