DCHP-2

cipaille < Quebec French DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — Food

  a traditional meat pie from Quebec with meat, pastry and potatoes as main ingredients.

  Type: 1. Origin — The name cipaille is a borrowing from the Quebec French terms cipaille, cipâtes or six-pâtes. The meal is a melange of stew and meat pie (see the video link "cipâte (cipaille) recipe" for a Quebec recipe). In English, a similar meal by the name of sea pie appears to be an English phonetic rendering of the French pronunciation of cipaille. Gottfred (1994-2002) considers both the French and English versions as deriving from a mid-18th century English recipe for "Cheshire Pork Pie for Sea" and dates the earliest North American recipes to 1796. In that case, cipaille must be considered a re-borrowing of an English word, sea pie, rendered into French as cipaille, back into English.
  See also Gage-5, s.v. "cipaille", which is marked "Cdn.", and COD-2, which is marked "Cdn".