pasty
noun
[ ˈpasti ]
• a folded pastry case with a savoury filling, typically of seasoned meat and vegetables.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French paste(e ), based on late Latin pasta ‘paste’.
pasty
adjective
• (of a person's face) unhealthily pale.
• "a pasty complexion"
Similar:
pale,
pallid,
wan,
colourless,
anaemic,
bloodless,
ashen,
white,
white as a ghost/sheet,
grey,
jaundiced,
waxen,
chalky,
chalk white,
milky,
pasty-faced,
whey-faced,
peaky,
sickly,
tired-looking,
washed out,
sallow,
drained,
drawn,
sapped,
ghostly,
deathly,
deathlike,
etiolated,
• of or like paste.
• "a pasty mixture"
