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noun

Pate n.

A pie. See Patty.

(Fort.) A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place. (R.)

Pate n.

The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head. (Now generally used in contempt or ridicule.) "His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate." "Fat paunches have lean pate."

The skin of a calf's head.

adjective

Pate adj. (Her.) See Patte.

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Etymology of 'Pate'

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"Pate" Quotes from Famous Books

... command of the army, the direct management of the provinces of Dehli and Agra, and allotted a monthly payment of sixty-five thousand rupees for the personal expenses of Shah Alam. In order to meet these expenses, and at the same time to satisfy himself and reward his followers, the Pate] had to cast about him for every available pecuniary resource. Warren Hastings having now left India, the time may have been thought favourable for claiming some contribution from the foreign possessors of the Eastern ...

— The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan • H. G. Keene

... had grown calm he explained that the baron was fond of liqueur, and that Maryan was wild for pate and ...

— The Argonauts • Eliza Orzeszko (AKA Orzeszkowa)

... freshly in out of God's sunshine!" The old sad and repining spirit had once more come over Richard Crawford, perhaps invoked by something in the young girl's words; and she saw the shadow almost as soon as he felt it. From that moment she was the rattle-pate again, and he caught no more glimpses into the sanctuary of her inner heart. He was to catch no more, forever; for the next time they spoke together in private was after certain events already related had occurred—after her hand had lain in another, in so significant a pressure ...

— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford

... had, greatly daring, acquired a packet; had followed the directions by mixing the powder with water and covering her head with the muddy result, and, "to make assurance doubly sure," had sat with her clay pate for an hour instead of ten minutes near a fire; had cracked the clay, washed her head, and found ...

— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest

... peeping in, wondering to see the two gentlemen in such a situation, and secretly giggling and enjoying the embarrassment of the old woman, whose wig lay on the table, and who was displaying her bald pate and shrivelled features from the bed-curtains, enveloped in fringe and tassels, which only served to render them still ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

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