almond pastries (1) Etymology
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From Middle English pastre , pastri , from pastree (variant of pasterie , from Old French pastaierie and Medieval Latin pasteria ) or paste + -ri (modern paste + -ry ).
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pastry (countable and uncountable , plural pastries )
( 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.
( uncountable ) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
That pastry shop sells not just pastry , but all kinds of baked goods.
( uncountable ) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
( countable , obsolete ) A place where pastry is made.
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , and Ed[ ward] Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , [Act IV, scene iv], line 2:They call for dates and quinces in the pastry .
( uncountable ) The act or art of making pastry.
He learned pastry from the great Gaston Lenôtre.
( uncountable , culinary industry) Desserts of all kinds, whether or not these incorporate the baked item made from flour and fat, or that section of a kitchen that prepares these.
I used to work in the fish section, but now I've been moved to pastry .
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food group
Armenian: թխվածք (hy) ( tʿxvackʿ ) , խմորեղեն (hy) ( xmoreġen )
Belarusian: піро́г m ( piróh )
Breton: kwignoù
Bulgarian: тестено изделие n ( testeno izdelie ) , сладкиш m ( sladkiš ) ( sweet pastry ) , сладки (bg) f pl ( sladki ) ( sweet pastry ) , соленка f ( solenka ) ( salty pastry )
Catalan: pastissos (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 糕餅 / 糕饼 ( gou1 beng2 )
Mandarin: 糕點 / 糕点 (zh) ( gāodiǎn ) , 點心 / 点心 (zh) ( diǎnxin ) , 糕餅 / 糕饼 (zh) ( gāobǐng )
Cornish: hogen f
Czech: pečivo (cs) n
Danish: bagværk (da) n
Dutch: gebak (nl) n , banket (nl) n
Esperanto: farunaĵo
Estonian: saiake
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 (he) m ( ma'afé )
Hungarian: sütemény (hu) , cukrászsütemény (hu)
Icelandic: bakkelsi (is) n
Indonesian: kue (id) , pastri , patiseri (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 , lucuns m , lucunculus m
Macedonian: печиво n ( pečivo )
Malay: pastri
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)
Ukrainian: ви́пічка f ( výpička )
Welsh: teisen (cy) f , cacen (cy) f
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