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pigeon pie

pigeon pie noun: a savoury game pie made of pigeon meat and various other ingredients traditional to French cuisine.

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
alternative formpigeon-pie

Questions about pigeon pie

What does pigeon pie mean?
Pigeon pie means a savoury game pie made of pigeon meat and various other ingredients traditional to French cuisine.
What part of speech is pigeon pie?
Pigeon pie is a noun.
What is the plural of pigeon pie?
The plural of pigeon pie is pigeon pies.

Words near pigeon pie in the dictionary

  1. pigeon lofts
  2. pigeon pair
  3. pigeon pairs
  4. pigeon pea
  5. pigeon peas
  6. pigeon pie
  7. pigeon pies
  8. pigeon plum
  9. pigeon plums
  10. Pigeon Ponds
  11. pigeon pose

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