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pate de foie gras

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pâté de foie gras  (d fwä grä)
n. pl. pâ·tés de foie gras (pä-t)
A paste made from goose liver, pork fat, onions, mushrooms, and often truffles.
[French : pâté, pâté + de, of + foie, liver + gras, fat.]
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Noun1.pate de foie gras - a pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles
foie gras
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.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
When he is well his appetite is truly wonderful--nothing comes amiss to him, sir, from pate de foie gras to potatoes.
My Lady's Money by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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.
The Secret Sharer by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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