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noun
- the liver of specially fattened geese or ducks, used as a table delicacy, especially in the form of a paste (pâté de foie gras).
noun
1818, short for pâté de foie gras (see pate (n.2)). Pâté de foie gras (1827 in English) is literally “pie of fat liver;” originally served in a pastry (as still in Alsace), the phrase now chiefly in English with reference to the filling.