pastry
A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crustA baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
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» Tom used to be a pastry chef.
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6 senses(countable)A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
That pastry shop sells not just pastries, but all kinds of baked goods.
(uncountable)The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
That pastry shop sells not just pastry, but all kinds of baked goods.
Backwerk, Gebäck, Feingebäck
вы́печкаvýpečka, мучны́е конди́терские изде́лияmučnýje kondíterskije izdélija
ви́пічкаvýpička
(uncountable)The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
Gebäckteig
a dough of flour and water and shortening
(uncountable)The act or art of making pastry.
He learned pastry from the great Gaston Lenôtre.
(uncountable)Desserts of all kinds, whether or not these incorporate the baked item made from flour and fat, or that section of a kitchen that prepares these.
I used to work in the fish section, but now I've been moved to pastry.
(countable, obsolete)A place where pastry is made.
Examples
79 sentencesTom used to be a pastry chef.
I know Tom used to be a pastry chef.
I know that Tom used to be a pastry chef.
Tom isn't a pastry chef.
I'm not a pastry chef.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English pastre, pastri, from pastree (variant of pasterie, from Old French pasFrom Middle English pastre, pastri, from pastree (variant of pasterie, from Old French pastaierie and Medieval Latin pasteria, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)) or paste + -ri (modern paste + -ry).
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Forms
plural: pastriesSynonyms
1 synonyms- a dough of flour and water and shortening:pastry dough
Word family
24 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
3 patterns- a pastry chef
- pastry chef
- be a pastry
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.