Pasty

From paste + -y.

Full definition of pasty

Like paste, sticky.These mashed potatoes arenâ€™t cooked well, they are very pasty.
pale, lacking colour, having a pallorHe is pasty-faced.(figuratively) He was feeling pasty.Are you feeling OK? You look a bit pasty.
(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) white-skinned

(plural pasties)

(chiefly in the plural) A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.

1989, Joe David Bellamy, Suzi Sinzinnati: A Novel, Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty-topped breast.
2001, Irene Pence, Buried Memories, One of the experienced dancers dabbed a bit of rubber cement inside a silver-sequinned pasty and told Betty to place it over her nipple
2004, February 02, Jake Drake, Janet Jackson and American Slut Culture, There really is no other purpose for wearing a pasty than to avoid being arrested for indecency.
2009, Jeffry S. Hepple, The Treasure of La Malinche Chapter Mancha, Mexico, "What's a pasty?" Â¶ "That's what strippers and showgirls used to wear to cover their nipples in teh old, tamer days of yore. They were round paper disks with spangles on one side and paste on the other; hence the term pasty."

From Anglo-Norman paste and Old French pastÃ©.

(plural pasties)

A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. A (savory) hand pie.

The spelling pasty is considered correct in the United Kingdom but in Australia the spelling pastie is the more common.