Read full poem →Make the rough road easy walking,
And the feather pate of folly
Bears the falling sky.
Dictionary Entry
(somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown.
In a Sentence
“He had a shiny, bald pate.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. patede pateet patepate baldpate liverpate balding
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Poetry examples for “pate”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And Horace patiently its stroke does take,
As he crowds in he whipt him ore the pate
Like Pembroke at the Masque, and then did rate.
Read full poem →And angry gods pursue from coast to coast,
Can nowhere find to shroud my luckless pate.
Read full poem →Shivering with fever, naked, old;
Sand raked his sores from heel to pate,
The hot wind fever'd him five-fold.
Read full poem →Alas, alas for Hamelin!
There came into many a burgher's pate
A text which says that heaven's gate
Read full poem →Man envies ;
When Love so rumbles in his Pate, no Sleep comes in
Read full poem →Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'And make my soul before my pate is bare.'
Read full poem →One eats one pate, even of salt, quotha.