Small baked cases filled with savory food like meat and vegetables, or adhesive coverings worn over the nipples.
From Old French paste meaning dough, from Latin pasta. The -ie suffix creates a diminutive form. The plural pasties can refer to the Cornish pasty (traditional English meat pie) or to costume coverings.
Cornish pasties were designed by miners' wives with one end savory meat and the other sweet fruit, so miners could eat a full meal in one hand while working in the dark.
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