pastry

pas·try  (pstr)

n. pl. pas·tries

1. Dough or paste consisting primarily of flour, water, and shortening that is baked and often used as a crust for foods such as pies and tarts.

2.

a. Baked sweet foods made with pastry: Viennese pastry.

b. One of these baked foods.

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[Middle English pastree, from paste, paste, dough; see paste¹.]

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pastry

Noun

1. a dough of flour, water, and fat

2. pl -tries an individual cake or pie

3. baked foods, such as tarts, made with this dough [from paste]

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Pastry articles of food made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc., collectively, 1539.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pastry - a dough of flour and water and shortening pastry dough pate feuillete, puff paste - dough used for very light flaky rich pastries dough - a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
	2.	pastry - any of various baked foods made of dough or batter flour - fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain baked goods - foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven pie crust, pie shell - pastry used to hold pie fillings pandowdy, dowdy - deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust frangipane - pastry with a creamy almond-flavored filling streusel - pastry with a topping of streusel tart - a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust timbale case, timbale - small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods pie - dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top French pastry - sweet filled pastry made of especially puff paste bouchee, patty shell - shell of puff paste sausage roll - sausage meat rolled and baked in pastry toad-in-the-hole - sausage baked in batter vol-au-vent - puff paste shell filled with a savory meat mixture usually with a sauce strudel - thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked baklava - rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey profiterole - a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate puff - a light inflated pastry or puff shell rugelach, ruggelach, rugulah - pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves)

Translations

pastry [ˈpeɪstrɪ] n (dough) → pasta;

(cake) → pastel m

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pastry [ˈpeɪstrɪ] n → pâte f (= cake); pâtisserie f

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pastry [ˈpeɪstrɪ] n (dough) → Teig m;

(cake) → Gebäckstück nt

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pastry [ˈpeɪstrɪ] n → pasta