Meaning of Pasty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.
2. Alternative spelling of pastie (“a small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers”).
   alt-of, alternative, in-plural

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Examples

“Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty-topped breast.”

“One of the experienced dancers dabbed a bit of rubber cement inside a silver-sequinned pasty and told Betty to place⟳ it over her nipple”

“There really is no other purpose for wearing a pasty than to avoid⟳ being arrested for indecency.”

“"What's a pasty?" ¶ "That's what strippers and showgirls used to wear⟳ to cover⟳ their nipples in teh old, tamer days of yore. They were round paper disks with spangles on one side and paste on the other; hence the term pasty."”

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