pastry

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I've been eating all sorts of things; potatoes and fresh bread and pastry -- no end of pastry, sir!

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  1. noun 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. noun Baked sweet foods made with pastry: Viennese pastry.
  3. noun One of these baked foods.

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  • She used his manuscript scores for curling papers and underlays for the pastry, and wrote to him when he was in England for money to buy a "widow's home." —  Haydn
  • Traditionally, the first layer of flour pastry is baked (and browned) in the mild fire and heat of burning wood logs and skins of sugarcane. —  teczcape- an escape to Food
  • This pastry is similar to the Italian sfogliatelle, but it's baked without the traditional cheese filling. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Take two squares of puff pastry, about 15 cm square, cut into quarters, and roll thin. —  Frugal Cuisine
  • Baked Berry Stella: This cute little star-shaped pastry was a bit too chewy for me. —  The Orange County Register - Homepage
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English pastree, from paste, paste, dough; see paste1.

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  1. from paste + -ry.
 

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/ˈpeɪstri/
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