pâté chinois

Borrowed from French pâté chinois.

pâté chinois

1. (Quebec) A French-Canadian dish of layered ground beef, sweetcorn and mashed potatoes, similar to shepherd's pie.

   Synonym: Chinese pie

   • 1991 December 8, Nancy Lyon, “Quebec's Cuisine Has a New Flavor”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     The golden baked pâté chinois, a shepherd's pie, uses a recipe brought back to Quebec by miners working in China, Me.

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From pâté +‎ chinois, literally “Chinese pie”, being a sort of pie from China, Maine, USA, where French Canadian workers arrived to work in textile mills and were served variations of shepherd's pie, bringing it home and developing this dish from it.

• IPA^(key): /pa.te ʃi.nwa/ ~ /pɑ.te ʃi.nwa/

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pâté chinois m (uncountable)

1. pâté chinois

   Coordinate term: hachis parmentier (France)