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

From pâté +‎ chinois; being a sort of pie from China, Maine, USA; where French Canadian workers arrived to work textile mills in Maine, USA, and were served variations of shepherd's pie, bringing it home, and developing the French-Canadian dish from it. "China" being "Chine" in French; and "chinois" being French for "Chinese".

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

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pâté chinois m (uncountable)

1. pâté chinois (“a Quebecois dish”)
2. (Quebec) shepherd's pie