pigeon pie
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Noun
pigeon pie (plural pigeon pies)
- A savoury game pie made of pigeon meat and various other ingredients traditional to French cuisine.
- 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, “His General Line of Business”, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1861, →OCLC, page 1:
- No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of public entertainment in the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry.
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