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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