I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Cornish pasty
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because the silica in andesite makes it thick and pasty , andesite tends to trap large amounts of gas.
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Beneath a top hat his face is pasty and bloated.
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Dinner was usually fried meat and pasty potatoes thrown on a chipped plate.
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Gone was the lively, glowing girl of the morning, in her place a pasty ghost.
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Pale spiky girl one side of a table, pale pasty boy the other.
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She smiles, and two dimples appear in her pasty cheeks, still shiny from last night's application of face cream.
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Slightly pasty and not as hot at the first visit, they were perfect the next time.
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Their pasty faces - the result of long periods underground - belie their extraordinary strength and tenacity.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Avoid quiches, pasties and meat pies, but don't be shy of the ubiquitous baked potato.
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Children often use dough in imitation of pastry; rolling, cutting and making cakes, pies or pasties.
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Hot pasties and hot drinks are served below deck at the bar, a comfort on chilly days.
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Martha brought him hot pasties every lunchtime from their cottage, to his place of work in the fields.
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She supposed that she wrongly still thought of pub meals in terms of bread and cheese or pasties.
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There were usually some vegetarian pasties and things going cheap.