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‖ pâte4|pat|
[Fr., = paste n.]
a. pâte (erron. pâté) brisée |pɑt brize|, short pastry.
1845E. Acton Mod. Cookery xvi. 405 Pate brisee, or French crust for hot or cold meat-pies. 1960E. David French Provincial Cooking 205 This is one version of the pâte brisée..used for most open tarts in French cookery. 1978N.Y. Times 29 Mar. c. 6/6 A pâté brisée is one of the best sweet pastry doughs.
b. The clay from which porcelain is made. So pâte dure |pɑt dyr|, hard clay; pâte-sur-pâte |pɑtsyrpɑt|, clay applied in layers to form relief decoration; pâte tendre |pɑt tɑ̃dr|, soft clay.
1863W. Chaffers Marks Pott. & Porc. 163 Porcelain of the pâte tendre has the appearance of an unctuous white enamel, like cream;..the pâte tendre is also soft in another sense, being unable to bear so great a degree of furnace heat as the hard porcelain. Ibid., The pâte dure, or true porcelain, is of the whiteness of milk, and feels to the touch of a hard and cold nature. 1870C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 71 We found an exquisite pâte tendre St. Cloud group. 1881C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork ii. 104 To Minton's unmatched artist, Solon, the world is indebted for an exquisite style of ceramic ornamentation, low relief carving in clay, known as pâte-sur-pâte. 1890[see Kutani]. 1899R. Glazier Man. Hist. Ornament 83 Porcelain is technically known under the terms ‘hard paste’ (‘pâte dure’) and ‘soft’ (‘pâte tendre’). 1904H. James Golden Bowl I. viii. 149 He had handled nothing so precious as the Principino..whom he could manipulate..as he couldn't a correspondingly rare morsel of an earlier pâte tendre. 1932R. Fry Characteristics of French Art iii. 66 He loved to feel the pâte tendre of a piece of fine pottery. 1947J. C. Rich Materials & Methods of Sculpture ii. 44 Pâte sur pâte is the phrase applied to a method of modeling very low reliefs with slip. 1959Times 3 Oct. 9/5 Her sister Florence, who specialized in birds..and also painted in pâte sur pâte. 1964H. Hodges Artifacts i. 33 In a process known as pâte-sur-pâte, clay made to the consistency of a thin paste may be painted on, layer by layer, to produce low relief modelling. 1972Country Life 20 Jan. 152/2 They are early Minton pâte-sur-pâte, their maker the technically gifted Marc Louis Solon. 1974Savage & Newman Illustr. Dict. Ceramics 215 Pâte dure, the French term for hard-paste porcelain. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 1074/4 A display of Minton pâte-sur-pâte wares.
c. pâte de verre |pɑt də vɛr|, powdered glass that has been refired.
1907E. Dillon Glass xxii. 359 Of quite another nature is the pâte de verre, a substance somewhat of the nature of a glass frit, which has been made use of by the French sculptor, M. Henri Cros, in the modelling of polychrome reliefs and friezes. 1961E. M. Elville Collector's Dict. Glass 178/2 [James] Tassie's medium was a finely powdered potash-lead glass, or pâte-de-verre. 1978Guardian Weekly 9 Apr. 14/4 Sofas are covered in bright prints, lamps are pink or blue pate de verre. |