Pastry
['peɪstrɪ] or ['pestri]
Definition
(noun.) any of various baked foods made of dough or batter.
(noun.) a dough of flour and water and shortening.
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Definition
(n.) The place where pastry is made.
(n.) Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.
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Definition
n. articles made of paste or dough: crust of pies tarts &c.: act or art of making articles of paste.—n. Pās′trycook one who cooks or sells pastry.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of pastry, denotes that you will be deceived by some artful person. To eat it, implies heartfelt friendships. If a young woman dreams that she is cooking it, she will fail to deceive others as to her real intentions. See Pies.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A deadly weapon carried by cafes, cooks and newly married housekeepers.
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Examples
- There was pastry upon a dish; he selected an apricot puff and a damson tart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Plante coiled up his sheets into a very handy cell like a little roll of carpet or pastry; but the trouble was that the battery took a long time to form. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That night I found a French pastry shop in High Holborn Street and filled up. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I acted on Mrs. Crupp's opinion, and gave the order at the pastry-cook's myself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He was past sixty, and fond of pastry. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- What I needed was pastry. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By the bye, before I go, my dear, I must speak to your Mrs. Carter about pastry. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Since baking powders in some form are used in almost all homes for the raising of cake and pastry dough, it is essential that their helpful and harmful qualities be clearly understood. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Why don't you mix your biscuits on the pastry-table, there? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Now, Small, says Mr. Guppy, what would you recommend about pastry? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She makes all our pastry, and does all our cooking. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Now for my part, I request that I may find nothing on your table to-morrow, but fish, flesh, fowl, vegetables, pastry, fruit and good wine. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He invited little Rawdon's crony from school, and made both the children sick with pastry, and oysters, and porter after the play. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A sort of a pastry-cook. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This precious vessel was now placed on my knee, and I was cordially invited to eat the circlet of delicate pastry upon it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Pastries made of cooked and shredded fish and red and green peppers and small nuts like grains of rice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Pastries delicate and flaky and the fish of a richness that was incredible. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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