pastry

American  

[pey-stree] / ˈpeɪ stri /

noun

plural

pastries

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.

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pastry British  

/ ˈpeɪstrɪ /

noun

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

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

3. an individual cake or pastry pie

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Etymology

Origin of pastry

First recorded in 1530–40; paste + -ry

Example Sentences

“Did you eat all the raspberry pastries, Glory?”

From Literature

Or maybe the splurge is reserved for the morning after: flaky pastries from the good bakery, eaten slowly with nice coffee when there’s nowhere in particular you need to be.

From Salon

Amodei, whose family is Italian, loves maritozzi so much that her husband once gave her a stuffed toy in the shape of the pastry as a gift.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her mother, who only went to primary school, sells fatayas and nems -- savoury pocket pastries and spring rolls -- outside the family's compound where their extended family lives.

From Barron's

Later, the counter began to crowd with flaky croissants, sticky pastry, brioches with amber sheen.

From Salon

Related Words

• bread
• cake
• croissant
• doughnut
• phyllo
• pie