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Meanings of pate in English

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clepsa

The top of the head.

clepsa
Usage of pate in English
1
Or you may poach the eggs and slide them into the pate.
Many Ways for Cooking Eggs
2
Storm stared at the top of Bronson's shaved pate for a moment.
Wild Storm
3
Brown pate shaven but for a long braided queue at his shoulder.
Night of Knives
4
Storo rubbed a hand over his balding pate, glanced to the others.
Return of the Crimson Guard
5
I had as lief have the castle drawbridge drop upon my pate.
The White Company
6
It was red-brown, with a round curly pate and one white leg.
Adventures in Contentment
7
If everybody refused to buy this pate it would not be made.
The Irish Times
8
But his arm again went out before him, and Ad-el-pate likewise sat.
The Last American / A Fragment from the Journal of Khan-li, Prin...
9
Brimstone giggled to himself and scratched a scab on his balding pate.
Faerie Wars
10
Here are the Krummenacher's recipes for wild mushroom risotto, soup and pate.
Radio NZ
11
Webster and Forster's agent put his hat back on his bald pate.
Atlantis
12
Go to bed, and don't bother your addle pate about your neighbours.
Red Pepper Burns
13
What brings you here head over heels in this way, young curly-pate?'
Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
14
Eyes on the bottle, Korya contemplated smashing it over Haut's hairless pate.
Forge of Darkness
15
Long wisps of white hair hung down from his large, bald pate.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
16
Oh, what music you made when your hands touched your smooth pate!
The Story of Siegfried
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