mince pie

American  

Or minced pie

noun

1. a pie filled with mincemeat.

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mince pie British  

noun

1. a small round pastry tart filled with mincemeat

2. slang:Cockney_rhyming (usually plural) an eye

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Etymology

Origin of mince pie

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

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

Thus, the style of mince pie that we know and love today began its meteoric rise.

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

And Alexander says, ‘No, we leave milk and mince pie.’

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 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