pastry

English

almond pastries

Etymology

paste +‎ -ry, or Old French pastaierie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪstɹi/

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Noun

pastry (countable and uncountable, plural pastries)

1. (countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.

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

2. (uncountable) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.

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

3. (uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
4. (countable, obsolete) A place where pastry is made.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, IV. iv. 2:

     They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.

5. (uncountable) The act or art of making pastry.

   He learned pastry from the great Gaston Lenôtre.

Derived terms

• pastry bag
• pastry chef
• pastry cream
• pastry cook
• pastry flour
• pastryless
• pastrylike
• pastrymaker
• pastrymaking
• pastry shop
• Pastry War
• pastry wheel

Translations

food group

• Armenian: թխվածք (hy) (tʻxvackʻ), խմորեղեն (hy) (xmoreġen)
• Belarusian: піро́г m (piróh)
• Breton: kwignoù
• Catalan: pastissos (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 糕餅／糕饼 (gou¹ beng²), 糕饼 (gou¹ beng²)

  Mandarin: 糕點／糕点 (zh) (gāodiǎn), 糕点 (zh) (gāodiǎn), 點心／点心 (zh) (diǎnxīn), 点心 (zh) (diǎnxin), 糕餅／糕饼 (zh) (gāobǐng), 糕饼 (zh) (gāobǐng)

• Czech: pečivo (cs) n
• Danish: bagværk (da) n
• Dutch: gebak (nl) n, banket (nl) n
• Esperanto: farunaĵo
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: baksturvøra f
• Finnish: leivos (fi), leivonnaiset, konditoriatuotteet
• French: pâtisserie (fr) f
• Galician: pastel m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Backwerk (de) n (pastry and bread), Gebäck (de) n (pastry and bread), Feingebäck (de) n
• Greek: αρτοσκεύασμα (el) n (artoskévasma), γλύκισμα (el) n (glýkisma)
• Hebrew: מאפה m (ma'afé)
• Hungarian: sütemény (hu), cukrászsütemény (hu)
• Icelandic: bakkelsi (is) n
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• Indonesian: kue (id)
• Irish: taosrán m, pastae m
• Italian: pasticceria (it) f, paste (it) pl
• Japanese: 菓子 (ja) (かし, kashi), ペースト (ja) (pēsuto), ペーストリー (ja) (pēsutorī)
• Korean: 페이스트리 (peiseuteuri), 빵과자 (ppanggwaja)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: crustum n
• Macedonian: печиво n (pečivo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bakverk (no) n

• Persian: شیرینی (fa)
• Polish: pieczywo cukiernicze n, wypiek (pl) m (pastry and bread)
• Portuguese: pastel (pt) m
• Russian: вы́печка (ru) f (výpečka), мучны́е конди́терские изде́лия n pl (mučnýje kondíterskije izdélija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пе̏цӣво n

  Roman: pȅcīvo (sh) n

• Slovak: pečivo n
• Spanish: pastel (es) m, pastelería (es) f
• Swedish: bakverk (sv) n, bakelse (sv) c
• Taos: pòstaléna
• Turkish: hamur işi (tr)

type of dough

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 油酥面團／油酥面团, 油酥面团 (yóusū miàntuán)

• Finnish: torttutaikina, pullataikina (fi), murotaikina (fi)
• German: Gebäckteig m
• Hungarian: édes tészta
• Italian: impasto (it) m
• Korean: 페이스트리 반죽 (peiseuteuri banjuk)
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• Norman: pâte dé pâté f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: butterdeig m

• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

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