petit pâté
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French petit (“small”) + pâté (“pie, pasty”).
Noun
editpetit pâté (plural petit pâtés or petits pâtés)
- A small pie or pasty. [from 15th c.]
- 1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 283:
- There was a course of two soups, two dishes of fish, stewed beef, boiled lamb and spinach, roast mutton, fricandeau of veal, petit pâté—in short, substantial and choice.
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
- With considerable willingness I ate and drank, keeping the petit pâté till the last, as a bonne bouche.
- 1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 283: