rhubarb pie
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- noun
- /ˈruːbɑːrb paɪ/
:
pastel de ruibarbo
- For dessert, we are having a delicious rhubarb pie that is sweet and tart.
- strawberry-rhubarb pie
- piece of rhubarb pie
- made a rhubarb pie
Examples
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I'm baking a rhubarb pie to bring over to Ally's family tonight.
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Wouldn't this be a good time for a piece of rhubarb pie?
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Inside, you will find a rhubarb pie.
Fiction book (1993) -
Remember, when you were a kid, your mother baked that rhubarb pie for my birthday?
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And for dessert, she made a rhubarb pie according to Aunt May's instructions.
Fiction book (1993) -
She won first prize last year with her rhubarb pie, and second with her gourds.
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We spent the afternoon making a strawberry-rhubarb pie, sipping iced tea in the shade, and reading.
Fiction book (1993) -
He orders coffee and a slice of rhubarb pie, and flirts with the waitress... until 3 o'clock.
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The first time I remember tasting strawberry rhubarb pie was in Aspen, at a backyard party meeting my husband's family.
Blog text (2) -
After eating deviled eggs, pork sandwiches, and rhubarb pie, Ella and Rudy took a long walk together, talking about their futures and continually brushing away mosquitoes.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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A baked pastry with a sweet or savory filling
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'rhubarb' (the tart stalks) with 'pie' (a pastry filled with ingredients); it denotes a pie made with rhubarb. This straightforward 'ingredient + pie' compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Rhubarb pie comes from putting rhubarb, a sour garden stalk, into a baked pie with lots of sugar. That's why it means 'a sweet pie made from rhubarb'.