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Definition of pasty:

  • (noun) small meat pie or turnover
  • (noun) (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers
  • (adjective) resembling paste in color; pallid;

Sentence Examples:

Her face turned a dull, pasty white.

Fanning turned a pasty yellow.

Mix lightly so as not to make it pasty.

Serve with a border of boiled pasties, potato balls, or chips.

Chuckling again to himself, he fell to upon the pasty and said no more.

Asked if you remembered Bill, and that peculiar pasty look about his skin.

When put into hot water, it assumes a white, pasty appearance, and splits in cooking.

Stirring renders the preparation pasty, and destroys its appearance.

The pasty looks to me as if it were tender, but I know that the hearts of women are so.

"Most likely pasty," answered the doctor's son, and this made the others laugh.

Pasty masses of iron form at the bottom of the puddle.

He laid down his pasty and trotted down to the edge of the river.

I ain't none of your Britons nor Cornish pasties neither, nor nothing like 'em.

You're pasty, that's right.

Wilfred went pasty, indeed, thinking his host was going to gun him.

Not a muscle of his own pasty, cruel face moved.

Bland lifted a pasty face from his work.

That pasty court life had spoiled her.

It rolled and sank, but not before Io had caught the contour of a pasty face.

He asked the ticket-agent, a big, pasty young man about them.

Inquired Jem, attacking the pasty.

His face turned pasty gray in the deep gloom of the cabin.

They ate as they went, holding up their pasties from time to time and comparing progress.

On our way back we saw Prince Rupert, a fat pasty-faced man, driving out in his coach.

My mouth is pasty, and salty, and sweat keeps running down into my eyes.

The pasty-faced man looked at him with thinly disguised contempt.

In a few moments both he and Caleb were seated before a steaming pasty.

Her skin was too pasty, her blue eyes too full and staring.

And Peter, tell the cook to make four little onion pasties, and see that we get them hot.

It's after the pattern of the cold pasties you read about in old English novels.

Cassidy's face took on a queer, pasty white.

He turned with rolling eyes and a pasty countenance to the two boys.

A dull color stained the pasty whiteness of Quest's face.

Her shining pink cheeks grew pasty, her jaw fell.

It was not pale, nor was it pasty.

The governor's face was drawn, and in the electric glare looked pasty white.

Holding out at arm's length a pasty.

Fortune was kinder here and rewarded me with a pasty, half-eaten, and a jug of ale.

I set down pasty and jug and turned to watch.

Forgetting pasty and jug, I bounded down.

He came into the studio, his pasty face beaming, and gave Molly's hand a cordial shake.

His stool should be a pasty homogeneous mass.

He then gave way to the bearer of the pasty.

He's that pasty-faced, sharp-nosed young fellow who's been helping the janitor recently.

It is pale chestnut above, and pasty white below.

"Certainly," agreed the stranger, with his mouth full of pasty.

His face was white, with a sickly pasty whiteness.

He had small eyes set in a rather big pasty face.

It is sold in China in a pasty state.

On his return a cup of pasty chocolate would await him.

His eyes glared like coals in his pasty white face.

Her face, in spite of the red spots, was pasty, as if she might faint.

A needle is used to prick the skin, and the pasty substance is smeared over the wound.

Their dull, pasty complexions alarm us then.

When it feels pasty or sticky it may be washed off with a little warm water without soap.

Maynard produced a packet of sandwiches and a pasty.

Do not apply it too thick, which would give the face a pasty, unnatural look.

My lady, why partake you not of the pasty?

He makes capital fish pasties too.

Hungry, he determined to taste the pasty he was carrying.

Buck's face was pasty when Ward opened the door.

It was pasty, but not unpleasant, and I ate it because it was her gift.

The spring and the sight of Joanna had sent the blood into my pasty cheeks.

In all probability it was once molten, and for long afterwards pasty.

Aunt Lucy is having sweet drinks now, and pasties, and all manner of nice things.

We do not get sweet pasties yonder.

Here's a sausage pasty and a handful of nuts for my share.

Help me to the pasty before you, and do not chatter so much.

His face was pasty white and he gulped.

No wonder they look pasty-faced!

The breast and shoulder make a very good pasty.

A thin young man, with a pasty face and a slight stoop, opened the door.

His face was a pasty gray.

He was a pasty-faced young man with gray eyes and eyebrows and a reddish beard.

The Cornish pasty is the best example of this kind of cooking.

A hot flame of color swept his pale and pasty face.

He was pasty yellow with terror.

Charles' face turned pasty white.

It was not fused at a high point, but kept in a pasty state when working.

Because the pasty must be made of dough (doe).

There were no pasty-faced cousins, and Ethel was very nice.

He asked, speaking thickly with his pasty tongue and dried lips.

"Would these pasty-faced beggars stick it?"

His complexion had turned a pasty yellow and his teeth were clicking together.

Simmer until the vegetables are tender but not pasty.

This flour makes it pasty, and holds the grains together.

Then bring me some of that chicken pasty.

Missy observed that his eyes were red-rimmed, and his face a pasty white.

I feel pasty, but am better now you have come.

His skin was pasty and yellow.

And his little face, pasty-colored and sharp, scowled at the delay.

It ate all the cold sheep's-head yesterday, and the day before half the big pasty.

With that red hair and pasty complexion!

Be so good, sir, as to whistle me something; I will then decide as to the pasty.

The pasty mud would close in behind the wheels like the Red Sea.

This pasty tastes splendid.

Some of them were dragging along tired, over-dressed, pasty-faced children.

Give me some pasty, I beg of you.

As the girl passed down the street a couple of pasty-faced young men stepped forward.

I know a shop where we can procure quite edible pasties.