variants
or less commonly pate
1
: a spread of finely chopped or pureed seasoned meat
chicken liver pâté
2
: a meat or fish pie or patty
1
: head
A hat covered his bald pate.
2
: the crown of the head
combed his hair across his pate
3
usually disparaging
: brain
Synonyms
Examples of pâté in a Sentence
Noun (2)
plopped a cap on his bald pate
Recent Examples on the Web
Lawrence Hodge / Jalopnik, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2024
While trays of chef Sophia Roe’s delicate hors d'oeuvres like English pea tarts, caviar edible spoons and elderflower pate de fruits passed through the crowd, perfumer Christine Nagel toasted the house’s newest fragrance, Barénia.
—Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
Corgan tipped the brim of the Cubs baseball cap that sat atop his gleaming pate.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Apparently, Parisians mistook the uniformed figure with the bald pate for General Dwight Eisenhower.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
The bald pate and Mephistophelian goatee evoked Ming the Merciless of the Flash Gordon comics and the menacing devil worshippers from movies — LaVey was reclaiming pop culture’s caricature of a Satanist to fashion his high-priest persona.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
Served on warm bread with mayo, cucumber, cilantro, jalapeno, pickled carrots and daikon, and pate, the little shop has remained a local favorite while also luring in food critics, impressed by its flavors.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2024
Many of the dishes at SAGE feature herbs and other ingredients plucked from plants growing on the patio, too, like the Door County smoke whitefish pate or egg salad sandwich with tarragon and microgreens.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
The chicken liver pate ($11) was rich, creamy and farmhouse-y.
—Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2024
Noun
To help with this, Fortune says Boring Tunnel has installed license plate readers that close the gate if an unauthorized vehicle pate is scanned.
—Lawrence Hodge / Jalopnik, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2024
While trays of chef Sophia Roe’s delicate hors d'oeuvres like English pea tarts, caviar edible spoons and elderflower pate de fruits passed through the crowd, perfumer Christine Nagel toasted the house’s newest fragrance, Barénia.
—Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024
Corgan tipped the brim of the Cubs baseball cap that sat atop his gleaming pate.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Apparently, Parisians mistook the uniformed figure with the bald pate for General Dwight Eisenhower.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
The bald pate and Mephistophelian goatee evoked Ming the Merciless of the Flash Gordon comics and the menacing devil worshippers from movies — LaVey was reclaiming pop culture’s caricature of a Satanist to fashion his high-priest persona.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
Served on warm bread with mayo, cucumber, cilantro, jalapeno, pickled carrots and daikon, and pate, the little shop has remained a local favorite while also luring in food critics, impressed by its flavors.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2024
Many of the dishes at SAGE feature herbs and other ingredients plucked from plants growing on the patio, too, like the Door County smoke whitefish pate or egg salad sandwich with tarragon and microgreens.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
The chicken liver pate ($11) was rich, creamy and farmhouse-y.
—Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2024
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“Pâté.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/p%C3%A2t%C3%A9. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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