shred-pie Hist.
Also shrid-.
[prob. f. shred ppl. a. (cf. minced-pie).]
A mince-pie.
| 1580 Tusser Husb. xxxi. iii, Shred pies of the best,..and turkey well drest. 1651 S. Sheppard Epigr. 121 Christmasse Day. No matter for Plomb-porridge, or Shrid-pies. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. 182 How King Henry the sixth..sent this Arch-Bishop, for a New-years-gift, a shred-pie indeed, as containing pieces of cloath and stuff, of several sorts and colours, in jeer. 1834 Southey Doctor viii, A shred pie, which is a coarse north country edition of the pie abhorred by puritans. 1884 Besant Dorothy Forster xiii, The tables were covered with Yule-cakes..not to speak of goose-pies, shrid or mince pies. |