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pate de foie gras

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Noun1.pate de foie gras - a pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles
pate - liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned


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At a grand diplomatic dinner given by his chief, he had started up and declared that a pate de foie gras was poisoned.
When he is well his appetite is truly wonderful--nothing comes amiss to him, sir, from pate de foie gras to potatoes.
It was lucky that some tins of fine preserves were stowed in a locker in my stateroom; hard bread I could always get hold of; and so he lived on stewed chicken, PATE DE FOIE GRAS, aspara- gus, cooked oysters, sardines--on all sorts of abominable sham delicacies out of tins.
 
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