pastry
[ pey-stree ]
/ ˈpeɪ stri /
noun, plural pas·tries.
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.
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cake, doughnut, bread, croissant, pie, phyllo, delicacy, dainty, tart, Danish, strudel, patisserie, turnover, panettone
Nearby words
- pastorly,
- pastorship,
- pastose,
- pastosity,
- pastrami,
- pastry blender,
- pastry brush,
- pastry cream,
- pastry tube,
- pasturable
Origin of pastry
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pastry
/ (ˈpeɪstrɪ) /
noun plural -tries
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
Word Origin for pastry
C16: from paste 1
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pastry
mid-15c., "food made with paste," not originally limited to sweets, from Middle English paste (see paste (n.)) + -ry. Probably influenced by Old French pastaierie "pastry" (Modern French pâtisserie), from pastoier "pastry cook," from paste (see paste (n.)); also borrowed from Medieval Latin pasteria "pastry," from Latin pasta. Specific sense of "small confection made of pastry" is from 1906. Pastry-cook attested from 1712.
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