pastry

Meaning

Noun

• A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
• The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
• The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
• A place where pastry is made.
• The act or art of making pastry.
• 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.

Origin

• From Middle English pastre, pastri, from pastree (variant of pasterie, from Old French pastaierie and Medieval Latin pasteria) or paste + -ri (modern paste + -ry).