variants
or less commonly pate
1
: a spread of finely chopped or pureed seasoned meat
chicken liver pâté
2
: a meat or fish pie or patty
1
: head
A hat covered his bald pate.
2
: the crown of the head
combed his hair across his pate
3
usually disparaging
: brain
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Examples of pâté in a Sentence
Noun (2)
plopped a cap on his bald pate
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Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
The menu includes dishes such as toast and tinned fish, pate de campagne with grainy mustard and cornichons, and Siberian caviar service with crème fraiche, chives, and potato chips.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2024
Another Vietnamese staple is banh mi, a crusty baguette typically filled with pork or chicken, pate, and pickled carrot and daikon radish.
—Catherine Garcia, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024
To help with this, Fortune says Boring Tunnel has installed license plate readers that close the gate if an unauthorized vehicle pate is scanned.
—Lawrence Hodge / Jalopnik, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2024
While trays of chef Sophia Roe’s delicate hors d'oeuvres like English pea tarts, caviar edible spoons and elderflower pate de fruits passed through the crowd, perfumer Christine Nagel toasted the house’s newest fragrance, Barénia.
—Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
Corgan tipped the brim of the Cubs baseball cap that sat atop his gleaming pate.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Apparently, Parisians mistook the uniformed figure with the bald pate for General Dwight Eisenhower.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
The bald pate and Mephistophelian goatee evoked Ming the Merciless of the Flash Gordon comics and the menacing devil worshippers from movies — LaVey was reclaiming pop culture’s caricature of a Satanist to fashion his high-priest persona.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
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Noun
Guests can expect dishes like Croque Madame with ham, gruyere, egg and bechamel, country pate, and duck confit with radicchio, apples, pumpkin seeds, dates topped with a vinaigrette.
—Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
The menu includes dishes such as toast and tinned fish, pate de campagne with grainy mustard and cornichons, and Siberian caviar service with crème fraiche, chives, and potato chips.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2024
Another Vietnamese staple is banh mi, a crusty baguette typically filled with pork or chicken, pate, and pickled carrot and daikon radish.
—Catherine Garcia, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024
To help with this, Fortune says Boring Tunnel has installed license plate readers that close the gate if an unauthorized vehicle pate is scanned.
—Lawrence Hodge / Jalopnik, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2024
While trays of chef Sophia Roe’s delicate hors d'oeuvres like English pea tarts, caviar edible spoons and elderflower pate de fruits passed through the crowd, perfumer Christine Nagel toasted the house’s newest fragrance, Barénia.
—Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
Corgan tipped the brim of the Cubs baseball cap that sat atop his gleaming pate.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Apparently, Parisians mistook the uniformed figure with the bald pate for General Dwight Eisenhower.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
The bald pate and Mephistophelian goatee evoked Ming the Merciless of the Flash Gordon comics and the menacing devil worshippers from movies — LaVey was reclaiming pop culture’s caricature of a Satanist to fashion his high-priest persona.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
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“Pâté.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/p%C3%A2t%C3%A9. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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