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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:

Faces, pasty as her own, lined up alongside, greedy of the morsel about to fall.

Almost as pasty as when you challenged me to produce those damned bales of fur.

Cook, that will be a sweet pasty, if you nibble the venison so.

"Aye, Se?or, and I should have known you again if by nothing but this piece of generosity," replies Dawson, with his cheek full of pasty, "for I remember both times you set down a piece and would take no change."

The bartender, with pasty face, round and blank, did not move either his hand or his fascinated eyes.

The dazzling white gems with pitiless brilliancy bring out the pasty look of the skin.

It appears the dinner consisted of a shoulder of mutton, half a goose, and venison pasty.

The softened chips are beaten to pieces in large vats until they form a pasty pulp.

This makes an excellent pasty, goes under the name of rock venison, and is little inferior to that of the deer.

A pasty gelatinous mass results.

Sufficient water is now added to the mixture to dissolve the pasty chromium salts.

A huge venison pasty formed the staple of the repast, but hares and other small game were also upon the table.

Even while she was speaking Fanny was stowing the extra pasties and cake into the basket.

He was pale and pasty, and suffered from indigestion.

The white of it was thick and pasty, the iris spongy in texture, and the pupil bulging with a lurid light.

The pasty color of the fat man ebbed till his face seemed entirely bloodless.

Whatever it was the hot eyes had cooled, and the fleshy cheeks had returned to their normal pasty hue.

Joan's reflections, interrupted by the necessary attention which her cakes and pasties made upon her, lasted over some considerable time, and they had not yet come to an end when two of the principal objects of them presented themselves before her.

Then at a wink from the miller, the wife brought out a venison pasty.

As we appeared so interested in what they told us, they kindly invited us to sit down and offered us wine, cake, delicious pasties, and jams, and later on baked nuts, though we were quite strangers to them.

He munched the rest of the pasty, talking between mouthfuls.

If the metal to be cleansed is gold, you will see a pasty mass or amalgam, as it is called, of a yellowish tinge.

You will find that venison pasty worth a trial, and the baked red deer in the center of the table is a noble dish.

By-and-by Humility let down the window and handed out a pasty.

Neither a pasty clay, a sour sticky loam, nor a poor sandy or chalky soil will produce fine Cucumbers.

At last the joke began to die out, and I was getting on very well, but for one boy, a heavy-looking fellow with a pasty face, who was always creeping after me, and asking me to tell him about my father.

Fresh bread, unless thoroughly chewed, so that it may be well broken up, becomes a hard, pasty ball in the stomach, which requires that organ to manufacture the additional gastric juices to break up this dough ball.

For a moment the dissipated youth surveyed his cousin, then an angry flush mounted into his pasty face.

Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner; come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

"Well, I reckon I'm worth as much as Solomon Hatch, a little pasty faced critter like that," rejoined Sarah.

My stomach is so sick of eel pasties, that the moment I smell them I have already dined.

The young man, when he heard this subtle comparison, was confused, and promised his master that he would do all that was desired, if he could but be quit of his pasties, and would carry messages and conduct intrigues as before.

He could feel it pasty on his tongue, gritty on his lips, grimy on his face.

It's an old hotel that we're in, quite pleased to show its age; and I have made rather a beast of myself with some sort of Cornish pasty, which, it seems, is a local favorite, and spoils the peasants' teeth.

Eel pasty appealed strongly to his taste.

He rubbed a pasty hand over his chin, shaking his head and wheezing heavily.

Her face was pasty-white, but she bent her head, and fluttered her eyelashes up at him.

Virtuous indignation and pained surprise struggled for expression upon her pasty, immobile face.

The latter maybe prepared in a pasty form in a stone cistern.

In a short time she becomes fat, pasty, placid, and utterly uninteresting.

His face was pasty with fear, but the old cunning still lurked in his eyes.

Just then the proprietor, a gigantic, pasty colonist, came up, with his pipe, and stood calmly looking on.

His hands trembled; his face was queerly pasty.

There was a great, vast, pasty blank of cheek from her somber eyes to the downcast corner of her mouth.

He found the artist producing a "melody of plastic beauty, garbed as a simple workman, his hair matted with pasty clay."

While these are panning, toast sufficient bread to hold them nicely; put it onto a hot platter, and just as the mushrooms are done, cover the bread with hot milk, being careful not to have too much or the bread will be pasty and soft.

He laughed out as he compared the bristly virile face of Bone with the pasty face of the young professor.

They would bring pasties and wines and lights, and coarsely they would revel.

A kindly farmer's wife, who baked fresh meat for him and sent it thrice a week to his cottage in the shape of a cold pasty, had to be visited and made to accept payment for a slab of sweet fresh butter he had not asked for.

He is gray as to his clothes, a trifle pasty as to his complexion, and more than a trifle fine in his manners.

Stephen declared laughingly that he saw he should keep the pasty.

Lucy was more than usually hungry, and did full justice to the pasties and conserves of apples which graced the board.

I have brought a veal pasty and some bread, so that we may not be hungry on the road.

They then attacked the venison pasty right valiantly, and pledged each other in a cup of wine.

The pasty-faced American played the Ace of Spades without saying a word.

Purdy's pasty face turned feebly red.

He was watching the district attorney when the pasty-faced man brushed against a hanging incandescent light.

White may have been freely used, but it is preserved in a few cases only, in which it was used in the production of simple decorative patterns, and appears to have been a somewhat thick or pasty color.

His jolly pasty face beams joyously upon me.

The captain sat back numbly, his face pasty gray.

When removed from the oven, and packed in layers of flannel, the pasty will keep hot for hours.

And I want a venison pasty!

The other shoveled it into the sluice, stirred it up, an' broke up the lumps when they got pasty.

So, with the ardor of the scientist, he divided with care the nasty, pasty growth he had found and prepared his plates.

The ground is so sticky that wagons on country roads may mire to the hubs in the pasty earth.

They were brought a pasty gruel for their supper, and ate in silence and distaste, ate because they needed the strength.

Why cannot you make a venison pasty of buck venison?

The bread is scorched at two corners and raw at the other two, brown on top, but pasty at the bottom.

He cannot make his pasty; he dares not take it upon himself, excellency.

Sodium silicate, extensively used as a filler, however, will only show itself in forming a pasty liquid.

The first of these two methods is fairly satisfactory, but I have always found that the charge, when made in this way, has a tendency to become wet and pasty, in which condition it will spoil the wings of the insects.

How quickly now the canvas loses its pasty mediocrity.

He looked to her now pasty and effeminate, and she loathed him.

"I was so fortunate as to witness that betrothal," said the friar, helping himself to another piece of the pasty.

There were pasties of all sorts, game, confections and a choice selection of wines.

Pip, clinging to Ben's hand, started forward, entranced, his little pasty-colored face looking keen and alight.

Moistening a few of these, she spread the pasty mass on the spot.

His features were distorted and twitching with rage and his face was pasty white.

She was a very ugly girl of fourteen, with a pasty face, and lank hair that dangled to her shoulders.

They had pasty complexions, pink eyes, and long glistening white teeth.

There are no burnt toast, soggy waffles, muddy coffee, heavy muffins, or pasty breakfast food to be reckoned with.

"You each of you had a treacle pasty in the train!"

"What be a treacle pasty?"

Penna's query, "What be a treacle pasty?"

And, if even tiny birds failed, they would make pasties of locusts or a dinner from leaves and grasses.

You mince it all up with herbs, and make it into a kind of pasty, and it sounds most delicious.

To judge by eyesight, the pasty was stuffed with spinach and prunes.

The acorn cakes smelling so good and the chestnut pasties done to a turn.'

Their idea of beauty is that of a white, pasty, fat face, without a vestige of color, except that which art applies!

Don't wash too much, or it will not be pasty enough to make tortilla.

His face was of a pasty, fishy whiteness, and his eyes had a light in them that I had not seen there before.

Bronco slid, clawing wildly at space until he enveloped Limber in a pasty embrace.

Soak shells in this pasty solution for a short time, and it will eat the epidermis off.

Under a calm exterior, a professor munching potato pasty!

His face, which was fat and broad, and pasty hued, suggested a curious mixture of shrewdness and of folly.

The dark-eyed, pasty-faced Gabriel shook in his uplifted arms like a poor played-out doll of rags.

Batten's and there had a venison pasty, and were very merry.

Rawlinson's, where my uncle Wight and my aunt, and some neighbor couples were at a very good venison pasty.

Batten and the rest of the officers to a venison pasty of his at the Dolphin, where dined withal Col.

His sallow face grew a pasty yellow, with anger.