FRENCH PASTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does French pastry mean? 

• FRENCH PASTRY (noun)
  The noun FRENCH PASTRY has 1 sense:

1. sweet filled pastry made of especially puff paste

  Familiarity information: FRENCH PASTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRENCH PASTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sweet filled pastry made of especially puff paste

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("French pastry" is a kind of...):

pastry (any of various baked foods made of dough or batter)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "French pastry"):

napoleon (a rectangular piece of pastry with thin flaky layers and filled with custard cream)

 Context examples 

From school duties she was exonerated: Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)