(a corruption of the words pate-de-guimauve); the name of a sort of paste or cakes much used on the continent as an agreeable and useful remedy for catarrhal fluxions, and supposed by Dr Pervical to consist of gum-arabic combined with sugar and the whites of eggs (see the article HUNGER, p. 715, col. 1.). But we have been informed that the powdered substance of the marshmallow is the chief ingredient of the composition.