Synonyms for pate
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : peyt |
Phonetic Transcription : peɪt |
Définition of pate
Origin :- "top of the head," early 14c. (late 12c. in surnames), of unknown origin; perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina "pan, dish" (see pan (n.)).
- noun head
- As my horse crashed into him I struck at his pate with my pistol.
- Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane
- Ay, leeks is goot:—Hold you, there is a groat to heal your pate.
- Extract from : « King Henry the Fifth » by William Shakespeare
- I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four days.
- Extract from : « King Henry the Fifth » by William Shakespeare
- He applies the cudgel as vigorously to the priest's pate as to the Lolardes back.
- Extract from : « The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 » by Sebastian Brandt
- Once he's got anything wedged in his pate there's no knocking it out.
- Extract from : « The Power of Darkness » by Leo Tolstoy
- For a moment or two a stranger might almost have believed that the pate was not bald.
- Extract from : « Linda Tressel » by Anthony Trollope
- My first is the same as my second, my third may be cracked, my whole is like your pate.
- Extract from : « Fruits of Culture » by Leo Tolstoy
- On one side of the volume was painted a bottle; on the reverse a pate.
- Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
- None o' that Peterborough style of counting in the back of your pate.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete » by George Meredith
- Pate Stewart,” the oppressive Earl, is chronicled at length in “the Diary.
- Extract from : « The Pirate » by Sir Walter Scott
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