petit pâté

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle French petit (small) + pâté (pie, pasty).

Noun

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petit pâté (plural petit pâtés or petits pâtés)

  1. A small pie or pasty. [from 15th c.]
    • 1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 283:
      There was a course of two soups, two dishes of fish, stewed beef, boiled lamb and spinach, roast mutton, fricandeau of veal, petit pâté—in short, substantial and choice.
    • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
      With considerable willingness I ate and drank, keeping the petit pâté till the last, as a bonne bouche.