pigeon pie

English

Noun

pigeon pie (plural pigeon pies)

1. A savoury game pie made of pigeon meat and various other ingredients traditional to French cuisine.
   • 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:

     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 greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry.

Alternative forms

• pigeon-pie

Further reading

• pigeon pie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia