Meaning of pastry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
   countable
2. A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc
3. The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
   uncountable
4. The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries
5. Dough or paste consisting primarily of shortening or another fatty substance mixed with flour and water, often baked and used as a crust for sweet foods such as pies and tarts.
6. The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
   uncountable
7. The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries
8. Baked sweet foods made with pastry: Viennese pastry.
9. A place where pastry is made.
   countable, obsolete
10. A place where pastry is made
11. Informal A sweet baked good.
    Informal
12. The act or art of making pastry.
    uncountable
13. The act or art of making pastry
14. (Cookery) a dough of flour, water, shortening, and sometimes other ingredients
15. 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.
    uncountable
16. (Cookery) baked foods, such as tarts, made with this dough
17. (Cookery) an individual cake or pastry pie
18. a sweet baked food made of dough.
19. a piece of such food.
20. paste (def. 3).
21. A. N (= dough) → masa f; (= cake) → pastel m
    N

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Examples

“That pastry shop sells not just pastries, but all kinds of baked goods.”

“That pastry shop sells not just pastry, but all kinds of baked goods.”

“They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.”

“He learned pastry from the great Gaston Lenôtre.”

“I used to work in the fish section, but now I've been moved to pastry.”

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