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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A place where pies, tarts, etc., are made.
  2. n. Viands made of paste, or of which paste constitutes a principal ingredient; particularly, the crust or cover of a pie, tart, or the like.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, Napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
  2. n. The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The place where pastry is made.
  2. n. Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a dough of flour and water and shortening
  2. n. any of various baked foods made of dough or batter

Etymologies

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

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