Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pasty

Pasty , adjective

Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.
A pasty complexion. — G. Eliot

Pasty (#) , noun

[Old French pasté, French pâté. See Paste, and compare Patty.]

A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.
If ye pinch me like a pasty. — Shakespeare
Apple pasties. — Dickens
A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. — Sir W. Scott