pastry
a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
any item of food of which such dough forms an essential part, as a pie, tart, or napoleon.
Origin of pastry
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How to use pastry in a sentence
But they are relishing their pastries with heavy hearts this week, as De Robertis prepares to close its doors for good tomorrow.
And then the two of them could trade stories about Jay Z, Chicago and French pastries.
America's first president threw lavish pies full of pastries and whiskey for friends and servants alike.
A visit to the vibrant Nouilles market for mint tea and North African pastries.
And the food was abundant: coffee, juice, and pastries lined the hallways.
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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 DaudetThe best is a light soup, with pearl barley, a cutlet, pastries and jelly; that is the proper midday meal.
The Precipice | Ivan GoncharovPastries 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 SciencesAnother 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 SciencesWe 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
/ (ˈpeɪstrɪ) /
a dough of flour, water, shortening, and sometimes other ingredients
baked foods, such as tarts, made with this dough
an individual cake or pastry pie
Origin of pastry
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