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Pastagate

name

Etymology

From pasta + -gate.

  1. derived from πάσσω
  2. derived from παστά — “barley porridge”
  3. derived from pasta — “dough, pastry cake, paste”
  4. borrowed from pasta
  5. suffixed as pastagate — “pasta + gate”

Definitions

  1. The 2013 scandal wherein an Italian restaurant was requested by the OQLF to use the…

    The 2013 scandal wherein an Italian restaurant was requested by the OQLF to use the French language on its menus. The incident was falsely believed to have been an attempt by Quebec to ban the word ‘pasta.’

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