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pas·try

(pā′strē)

n. pl. pas·tries

1. 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.

a. Baked sweet foods made with pastry: Viennese pastry.

b. One of these baked foods.

3. Informal A sweet baked good.

[Middle English pastree, from paste, paste, dough; see paste¹.]

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pastry

(ˈpeɪstrɪ)

n, pl -tries

1. (Cookery) a dough of flour, water, shortening, and sometimes other ingredients

2. (Cookery) baked foods, such as tarts, made with this dough

3. (Cookery) an individual cake or pastry pie

[C16: from paste¹]

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pas•try

(ˈpeɪ stri)

n., pl. -tries.

1. a sweet baked food made of dough.

2. a piece of such food.

3. paste (def. 3).

[1530–40; paste + -ry]

Pastry

articles of food made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc., collectively, 1539.

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Noun	1.	pastry - a dough of flour and water and shortening pastry dough pate feuillete, puff paste - dough used for very light flaky rich pastries dough - a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
	2.	pastry - any of various baked foods made of dough or batter flour - fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain baked goods - foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven pie crust, pie shell - pastry used to hold pie fillings pandowdy, dowdy - deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust frangipane - pastry with a creamy almond-flavored filling streusel - pastry with a topping of streusel tart - a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust timbale case, timbale - small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods pie - dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top French pastry - sweet filled pastry made of especially puff paste bouchee, patty shell - shell of puff paste sausage roll - sausage meat rolled and baked in pastry toad-in-the-hole - sausage baked in batter vol-au-vent - puff paste shell filled with a savory meat mixture usually with a sauce strudel - thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked baklava - rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey profiterole - a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate puff - a light inflated pastry or puff shell rugelach, ruggelach, rugulah - pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves)

pastry

noun tart, Danish (pastry), pasty, tartlet high fat foods such as cakes and pastries see cakes and pastries

Types of pastry

choux pastry, filo pastry, flaky pastry, hot water pastry, pâte brisée, pâte feuilletée, pâte sucrée, puff pastry, rough puff pastry, shortcrust pastry, suet pastry

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Translations

عَجينَهفَطيرَهمُعَجَّنَاتٌ

cukrářské pečivolistové těstotěsto

butterdejbutterdejstærtewienerbrød

taikina

kolači

édestészta

hveitideigsætabrauî

pasta pasticceria pasticcini biscotti crostata

生地

페이스트리

tešla

konditorejamīkla

gebakje

butterdeig kaker mørdeig pai wienerbrød

ciastko

massa

тесто

cukrárske pečivo

pecivotesto

bakverk

ขนมอบ

hamur pastapasta hamuru

bánh ngọt

做馅饼的面团糕点馅饼皮

pastry

[ˈpeɪstrɪ]

A. N (= dough) → masa f; (= cake) → pastel m

B. CPD pastry board N → tabla f de amasar
pastry brush N → cepillo m de repostería
pastry case N → cobertura f de pasta
pastry cook N → pastelero/a m/f, repostero/a m/f
pastry cutter N → cortador m de masa
pastry shop N → pastelería f, repostería f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pastry

[ˈpeɪstri] n

(for tarts, pies) → pâte f pastry brush

(= cake) → pâtisserie f
pastries → les pâtisseriespastry brush n → pinceau m à pâtisseriepastry case n → croûte fpastry chef pastry cook n → pâtissier/ière m/fpastry cutter pastry-cutter [ˈpeɪstrikʌtə^r] n → emporte-pièce m invpast tense n (GRAMMAR) → passé m
in the past tense → au passé

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

pastry

n → Teig m; (= cake etc) → Stückchen nt; pastries pl → Gebäck nt ? Danish pastry

pastry

pastry brush

n → Backpinsel m

pastry case

n → Törtchenform f

pastry chef, pastry cook

n → Konditor(in) m(f); (with higher qualification) → Konditormeister(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pastry

[ˈpeɪstrɪ] n (dough) → pasta(per rustici, dolci) (cake) → pasta, pasticcino

pastry

(ˈpeistri) – plural ˈpastries – noun

1. flour paste used in making pies, tarts etc.

2. a pie, tart etc made with this. Danish pastries.

pastry

→ مُعَجَّنَاتٌ těsto butterdej Teig ζύμη masa taikina pâte kolači impasto 生地 페이스트리 gebakje butterdeig ciastko massa тесто bakverk ขนมอบ hamur bánh ngọt 馅饼皮

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And, if I have a passion, the name of it is Pastry. Here again, Lady Doris reciprocates my sentiments.

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"It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does."

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He was a young man of much mental activity, and, above all, gifted with a spirit of contrivance; but then, his faculties would not tell with great effect in any other medium than that of candied sugars, conserves, and pastry. Say what you will about the identity of the reasoning process in all branches of thought, or about the advantage of coming to subjects with a fresh mind, the adjustment of butter to flour, and of heat to pastry, is NOT the best preparation for the office of prime minister; besides, in the present imperfectly- organized state of society, there are social barriers.

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`probably Monsieur de Chavigny is afraid your pastry is not good.' `My pastry not good!

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In this extremity she fell on the unlucky nephew, tooth and nail, and plucking a handful of hair from his head, demanded to know how long she was to stand there to be insulted, and whether or no he meant to help her to carry out the box again, and if he took a pleasure in hearing his family reviled: with other inquiries of that nature; at which disgrace and provocation, the small boy, who had been all this time gradually lashed into rebellion by the sight of unattainable pastry, walked off indignant, leaving his aunt and the box to follow at their leisure.

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Glegg did, if their pastry had a less leathery consistence, and their damson cheese a less venerable hardness than hers; nay, even the peculiar combination of grocery and druglike odors in Mrs.

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I an't a proposin nothin; only Sam he said der was one of dese yer perfectioners, dey calls 'em, in Louisville, said he wanted a good hand at cake and pastry; and said he'd give four dollars a week to one, he did."

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Perhaps then, in some unaccustomed moment of amiability, she made you a dough lady, cutting the outline deftly with her pastry knife, and then, at last, placing the human stamp upon it by sticking in two black currants for eyes.

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Anna Maria said she thought that it was of no consequence; but she wished that Tom Kitten would hold his head still, as it disarranged the pastry. She laid hold of his ears.

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It looked as though Saturday were naturally indicated for Philip, but Mary Ann said she couldn't keep the fire up on Saturday night: what with all the cooking on Sunday, having to make pastry and she didn't know what all, she did not feel up to giving the boy his bath on Saturday night; and it was quite clear that he could not bath himself.

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This precious vessel was now placed on my knee, and I was cordially invited to eat the circlet of delicate pastry upon it.

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Besides these dishes of domestic origin, there were various delicacies brought from foreign parts, and a quantity of rich pastry, as well as of the simnel-bread and wastle cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility.

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