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pigeon-pie

pigeon-pie is the alternative form of pigeon pie.

Meaning of pigeon pie

Noun

pigeon pie (plural pigeon pies)

  1. A savoury game pie made of pigeon meat and various other ingredients traditional to French cuisine.
    • No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of public entertainment in the United Kingdom...1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, “His General Line of Business”, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC, page 1

Forms of pigeon-pie

pluralpigeon-pies

Questions about pigeon-pie

What is pigeon-pie the alternative form of?
Pigeon-pie is the alternative form of pigeon pie.

Words near pigeon-pie in the dictionary

  1. pigeon-hole
  2. pigeon-holed
  3. pigeon-holes
  4. pigeon-holing
  5. pigeon-livered
  6. pigeon-pie
  7. pigeon-pies
  8. pigeon-toed
  9. pigeonable
  10. Pigeonbah
  11. pigeonberries

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