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A Dictionary of Accounting (5 ed.)
... Abbreviation for public interest entity...
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A Dictionary of Finance and Banking (6 ed.)
... Abbreviation for public interest entity ....
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3 ed.)
... Abbreviation for ‘Proto-Indo-European’: see protolanguage ( 1 )...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
... Ornament resembling a stylized chrysanthemum, or the rosette...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...will eat, bye and bye, In the glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You’ll get pie in the sky when you die. As easy as pie See under as . Cock and Pie See under cock . Cottage pie See under cottage . Eat humble pie, To See under eat . Have a finger in the pie, To See under finger . Shepherd’s pie See under shepherd . Squab pie See under squab . Stargazy pie See under star . Who ate all the pies? See under who . Woolton pie See under woolton...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (4 ed.)
... pie easy as pie : see easy . eat humble pie : see humble . have a finger in the ( or in every ) pie : see finger...
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The Diner’s Dictionary (2 ed.)
...and fruit pies do not appear until the late sixteenth century. To begin with, too, pies could be open as well as having a crust on top, but over the centuries the word has become restricted in British English to closed pies (even to pies with a top crust but no pastry shell), with open pies being termed tarts . American English, however, continues to apply the term to open pies. Pies come in all shapes and sizes, but prototypically they are circular, as is shown by the metaphorical application of the word to the statistician's pie chart or pie diagram , a...
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (4 ed.)
... Food cooked in a dish and covered with pastry; may be sweet or savoury. Also savoury dishes with a crust of mashed...
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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 279 1 English: variant of Pye , in part a cognate of 2 below. 2 French ( Pié ): variant of Piet ‘foot’ and, in North America, also an altered form of this. Compare Pease and Pee . 3 French: nickname from Old French pie ‘magpie’, perhaps given to a talkative person or someone who had a loud, chattering voice. History: Some of the American bearers of the surname Pie (see 2 above) are descendants of Jean Piet(te) dit Trempe (la/La Crouste) from France (see Piet...
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The Oxford Companion to Food (3 ed.)
...crust could be jettisoned. Then dishes with bottom crusts only, which we would call a tart , retained the name of pie in America (where, in general, they are sweet, not savoury). The erect pie, too, changed shape as finer pastries (not self-supporting) came to be preferred, and the pie, for instance the meat pie of Australia or the meat pie of northern regions of Britain, was baked in a small sloping-sided pie dish. Pies and covered tarts existed in France and Italy (and the florentine probably represents that strand in early English cookery). They often...
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The Oxford Companion to the Book
... Type is said to be ‘pied’ or ‘in pie ’ if it is in a chaotic mixture, usually because it has been dropped after *composition . Pied type must generally be returned to the *type case and reset (if necessary) or melted down. Paul W....
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The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
...four kinds of pie were traditional for this feast occasion—mince, cranberry, pumpkin and a kind called Marlborough, a glorification of everyday apple. Many states have nominated a pie as an “official” state food, including Delaware (peach pie), Florida (Key lime pie), Indiana (sugar cream pie), Maine (blueberry pie), Oklahoma (pecan pie), and Louisiana, which alone has chosen a savory pie—the Natchitoches meat pie. See state desserts . With such a volume of popular and governmental support, it seems likely that America’s love affair with the pie is set to...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
... or Pica . The name given in England in the 15th cent. to the book of directions for saying the services. In the BCP (‘Concerning the Services of the Church’) it is censured for ‘the number and hardness of its...
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins (3 ed.)
...pie [ME] The pie that is a dish with a pastry crust is probably the same as the pie in names of birds such as the magpie, which until the late 16th century was simply called a pie (the mag part comes from the name Margaret. It seems to have been quite common to give birds names, as in the Robin ). The various ingredients in early pies may have suggested the objects randomly collected by the ‘thieving magpie’, or its variegated colouring. The word itself comes from Latin pica ‘magpie’. Originally pied [LME] meant ‘black and white like a magpie’ and referred...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
... ( or Pica ) The name given in England in the 15th cent. to the Ordinale or Directorium , the book of directions for saying the service, and relating its various parts, esp. the occurrence and concurrence of movable and immovable feasts. This work, which took the place of the modern Ordo recitandi divini officii or Calendar, is censured in the Preface to the 1549 BCP (since 1662 headed ‘Concerning the Service of the Church’) for ‘the number and hardness of its...
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The Oxford Companion to Wine (5 ed.)
... franco , Spanish for ungrafted vine...
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (4 ed.)
...pie Tudor ; pie made from intestines of a sheep or...
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (4 ed.)
...pie Beef stew with a suet-crust...
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (4 ed.)
...pie Dish made from minced lamb or mutton with a crust of mashed potato, baked. Cottage pie is made with minced...
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (4 ed.)
...pie American ; meat or poultry pie baked in an uncovered vessel with a crust of pastry or biscuit...
