meat-pie

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English

Noun

meat-pie (countable and uncountable, plural meat-pies)

  1. Alternative form of meat pie.
    • 1857, Amelia B[lanford] Edwards, The Ladder of Life: A Heart-History, London: Geo Routledge & Co., . New York: , page 100:
      Now, my dears, let us see what we have here! First of all, meat-pie. Shall I give you a piece of meat-pie, dear Mademoiselle Natalie!—it is the same pie that you liked so much the night before last at Basle, and, fortunately, is not all gone yet!
    • 1874, Marion Harland [pseudonym; Mary Virginia Terhune], Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., , page 105:
      You can use the potato crust, which is very wholesome and good, for any kind of meat-pie.
    • 1922, Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron, A Thousand Ways to Please a Family with Bettina’s Best Recipes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, page 22:
      “Well, we’re to have meat-pie,” said Bettina, “and I must look up a good recipe for it now——” “Meat-pie? Delicious!” said Alice.
    • 2018 June 26, Christopher Arnott, “Terrence Mann Kills As Demon Barber”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXXII, number 177, Hartford, Conn., page D1:
      LIZ LARSEN and Terrence Mann sing foul puns about human-infused meat-pies in “Sweeney Todd” at Connecticut Repertory Theatre through July 1.