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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...
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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...
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Christmas, His Masque
The "Sons and Daughters" of Christmas are Carol, Misrule, Gambol, Offering, Wassail, Mumming, New-Year's-Gift, Post and Pair, and even Minced-Pie and Baby-Cake
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minced
minced, ppl. a. (mɪnst) [f. mince v. + -ed1.] 1. Of meat, etc.: Cut up or chopped into very small pieces. minced collops: see collop1 2 c. See also minced meat, minced-pie.c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 17 Frye smalle mynsud onyone In oyle. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 15 Also mencyd Dates, Clowes, Maces [e...
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shred-pie
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 ...
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