pastry

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noun,plural pas·tries.
  1. a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.

  2. any item of food of which such dough forms an essential part, as a pie, tart, or napoleon.

Origin of pastry

1
First recorded in 1530–40; paste + -ry

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How to use pastry in a sentence

  • The dancer was so astonished that she almost upset her pretty pastries, which looked as light and airy and delicious as herself.

    The Nabob | Alphonse Daudet
  • The best is a light soup, with pearl barley, a cutlet, pastries and jelly; that is the proper midday meal.

    The Precipice | Ivan Goncharov
  • Pastries and Pies completes this volume, rounding out, as it were, the housewife's understanding of dessert making.

    Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Another method is adopted for pastries that are intended to be somewhat flakier and of a little better quality than plain pastry.

    Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • We ate those pale Nuoro pastries—they were just flaky pastry, good, but with nothing inside but a breath of air.

    Sea and Sardinia | D. H. Lawrence

British Dictionary definitions for pastry

pastry

/ (ˈpeɪstrɪ) /


nounplural -tries
  1. a dough of flour, water, shortening, and sometimes other ingredients

  2. baked foods, such as tarts, made with this dough

  1. an individual cake or pastry pie

Origin of pastry

1
C16: from paste 1

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