"pate" is correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used as a noun to mean a spreadable paste made from a mixture of chopped liver, fat, and seasoning. It can also be used as a verb to mean "to smooth or spread a substance evenly over a surface," or as an adjective meaning "having a smooth texture." Example sentence: We served guests a variety of paté varieties with our antipasto platter.
A caricaturist's dream, Mr Bezos has an outsized neck, striking pate and an infectious guffaw that spreads enthusiasm.
Once, during a tour of a food market in Australia, the burly but politically nimble city father was rash enough to whip out a notebook and record some of the prices until tradesmen started waving their fists at his gleaming bald pate.
He spouts Shakespeare, listens to old tunes on a contraband jukebox and plays mind-games with Evey to turn her from a fearful secretary at a television network into the avenging angel with a shaved pate who flips the switch that brings on the revolution.John Hurt plays the dictator, and Stephen Rea plays an honest cop trying to solve the mystery.
Neil Kinnock's failure to attract female voters was attributed by some to his bald pate.
Thus in 2011 Mr Pan's toothy grin, square glasses and bald pate, instantly recognisable by the millions who follow him, became the face of "PM2.5", a category of small pollutants, measuring less than 2.5 microns across, that are particularly damaging to the lungs.
Climbing in and out of cars, getting up suddenly from an airline seat, painting ceilings, trimming hedges, tinkering around the garage have all taken their toll over the years of your correspondent's pate.
A victorious Governor Jerry Brown, his voice gruffer, his pate sparer and his metaphors more florid than during his first stint in office over 30 years ago, called for California to adopt "the prudence of Joseph" in the coming years.
And the high wind generally attendant upon his high-altitude cross-examination would whip his extravagant comb-over up and across his glistening pate where it would frantically dance while Gubby Allen or perhaps one of the Bedser twins would bemoan the state of the modern game.I do not wish to bemoan the modern game.
The balding pate of George Papandreou, Greece's prime minister, is a sell sign, and Silvio Berlusconi's hair transplant cannot hide Italy's troubles.
But the pattern of legislative activity is very similar, and the political dynamic was similar, because when I first arrived at the state legislature, we had an old guy who was the senate president, named "Pate PhilipPate Philip
Mark Whicker of the Washington Post summed up the disappointment felt at the behaviour of the American players: "It seems an American team can't get through an international competition without acting like jackasses at some point, and Steve Pate and Tom Lehman led a ridiculous charge to mob Leonard.
