pastry
A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
Example
“That pastry shop sells not just pastries, but all kinds of baked goods.”
Other meanings
The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
“That pastry shop sells not just pastry, but all kinds of baked goods.”
The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
A kind of
- dough
Kinds of pastry
- puff paste
Related words
- nonpastry
- pastrycook
- pastryman
- pastry bag
- pastry chef
- pastry cream
- pastry cook
- pastry flour
- Napoleon pastry
- pastryless
- pastrylike
- pastrymaker
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "παστά".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pastry” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.