pastry
Americannoun
plural
pastries-
a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
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any item of food of which such dough forms an essential part, as a pie, tart, or napoleon.
noun
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a dough of flour, water, shortening, and sometimes other ingredients
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baked foods, such as tarts, made with this dough
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an individual cake or pastry pie
Etymology
Origin of pastry
Example Sentences
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The short video shows Mychelle in a hospital gown picking at a pastry, along with what appears to be a case for a portable breast pump in her lap.
From Los Angeles Times
In a Yelets bakery the smell of freshly baked raisin bread, scones and cream pastries is intoxicating.
From BBC
A sheet of frozen puff pastry is added on top of the dish and baked in the oven.
From Salon
“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
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