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mince-pie
mince-ˈpie [Alteration of minced-pie: see mince v. 7 b.] 1. A pie containing mincemeat (see mincemeat 1 b). Usually, one of the small pies (now commonly round, but cf. quots. 1807 below and 1753 s.v. minced-pie) which form a prominent part of English Christmas fare.α 1600 [see 4]. 1661–2 Pepys Diary... Oxford English Dictionary
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Mince pie
A mince pie (also mincemeat pie in North America, and fruit mince pie in Australia and New Zealand) is a sweet pie of English origin filled with mincemeat, being a mixture of fruit, spices and suet. The pies are traditionally served during the Christmas season in much of the English-speaking world. ... wikipedia.org
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Home Made Mince Pie
Home Made Mince Pie is a 1910 American silent short comedy produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film is a comedy of circumstances, in which the Gale family is going to host a dinner. The focus of the humor is in a mince pie that brandy is added to in an attempt to make it more appreciable, but th... wikipedia.org
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minced-pie
minced-pie 1. = mince-pie 1. Now only U.S.α 1607 R. Johnson Pleas. Conceites Old Hobson (Percy Soc.) 9 Cramming their bellies with minced pyes. 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 297 Dates are usually put into..minced pies. 1748 Mrs. Harrison House-Kpr.'s Pocket-Bk. ii. (ed. 4) 6 Christmas... Oxford English Dictionary
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Goose-Pie House
1711 Vanbrugh Castle (1717), his later house at Maze Hill in Greenwich; a small house built by Vanbrugh for his brother in its grounds became known as "Mince-Pie wikipedia.org
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mince
▪ I. mince, n. (mɪns) [f. mince v.] 1. Minced meat; mincemeat.a 1850 Rossetti Dante & Circ. ii. (1874) 274 Then let them hew me to such mince As a man's limbs may make. 1863 [see hash n.1 1]. 1869 Mrs. Stowe Old-town Folks xxvii. (1870) 305 ‘We children’ were employed in chopping mince for pies. 189... Oxford English Dictionary
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Charles Vanbrugh
John Vanbrugh built Charles a house beside his "castle" in Greenwich and it was known as the Mince-Pie House (demolished 1902). References External links design for Mince-Pie House photograph of The Nunnery 1680 births 1740 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for wikipedia.org
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Christmas
▪ I. Christmas, n. (ˈkrɪsməs) Forms: 2 Cristes mæsse, 4 cristesmesse, cristmasse, kryst-masse, 4–5 cristemes(e, cristemasse, crystmas(se, 5 cristmes, cristmas, crysmas, 6 cristimas, 6–7 Christmasse, 7–8 Christmass, 6– Christmas, (north. dial. 8 Kesmas, 9 Cursmas, Cursmis). [Late OE. Cristes mæsse th... Oxford English Dictionary
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Christmas, His Masque
Mince-Pie is attired "like a fine cook's wife, drest neat," while Gambol is dressed "like a tumbler, with a hoop and bells." wikipedia.org
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Vanbrugh Castle
other structures in the grounds designed and built by Vanbrugh – the Nunnery, a second smaller single-story house occupied by Vanbrugh's brother Philip; Mince-pie Further extensions to the main house were added in the late 19th and early 20th century, but Mince-Pie House was demolished in 1902 and the Nunnery was wikipedia.org
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ocean
ocean, n. (a.) (ˈəʊʃən) Forms: 3–6 occean, -ian, (4 oxian, 4–5 occion(e, occyon, 5 -an), 4–6 occeane, 5–6 -iane, 6 -æan, ocian, -eane, -yane, 6– ocean. [a. F. océan (occean 12th c. in Littré), ad. L. ōcean-us, f. Gr. ὠκεανός, orig. the great stream or river (cf. ῥόος Ὠκεανοῖο, Ὠκεανός ποταµός, in Ho... Oxford English Dictionary
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Frances Crewe, Lady Crewe
1783, when William Pitt the younger took office, she famously remarked that he "could do what he pleased during the holidays, but it would only be a mince-pie wikipedia.org
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pie
▪ I. pie, n.1 (paɪ) Also 4–8 pye, 5–6 py, (6 pee). [a. OF. pie (13th c. in Littré) = Pr. piga, It. pica:—L. pīca magpie.] 1. The bird now more usually called magpie.a 1250 Owl & Night. 126 Þat pie and crowe hit todrowe. 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 355 Beleue nouȝt yn þe pyys cheteryng. c 1380 Wyclif... Oxford English Dictionary
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die
▪ I. die, n.1 (daɪ) Pl. dice (daɪs), dies (daɪz). Forms: 4–5 dee, 6–8 dye, dy, 6– die. pl. 4 des, 4–5 dees, deys, dys, 4–6 dyse, dyce, 5–6 dis(e, (dysse, 6 dyyss), 5– dice; also 5–6 dyes, 5– dies. Also sing. 4– 5 dyse, 5–6 dyce, 5–7 dice; pl. 4–5 dyces, 5 dises, dices, dycys. [Early ME. dē, dee, pl.... Oxford English Dictionary
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William Pitt the Younger
However, although it was widely predicted that the new "mince-pie administration" would not outlast the Christmas season, it survived for seventeen years wikipedia.org
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