PASTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pastry mean? 

• PASTRY (noun)
  The noun PASTRY has 2 senses:

1. a dough of flour and water and shortening

2. any of various baked foods made of dough or batter

  Familiarity information: PASTRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dough of flour and water and shortening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

pastry; pastry dough

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

dough (a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll)

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

pate feuillete; puff paste (dough used for very light flaky rich pastries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various baked foods made of dough or batter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

baked goods (foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven)

Meronyms (substance of "pastry"):

flour (fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain)

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

dowdy; pandowdy (deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust)

rugelach; ruggelach; rugulah (pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves))

puff (a light inflated pastry or puff shell)

profiterole (a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate)

baklava (rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey)

strudel (thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked)

vol-au-vent (puff paste shell filled with a savory meat mixture usually with a sauce)

toad-in-the-hole (sausage baked in batter)

sausage roll (sausage meat rolled and baked in pastry)

bouchee; patty shell (shell of puff paste)

French pastry (sweet filled pastry made of especially puff paste)

pie (dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top)

timbale; timbale case (small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods)

tart (a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust)

streusel (pastry with a topping of streusel)

frangipane (pastry with a creamy almond-flavored filling)

pie crust; pie shell (pastry used to hold pie fillings)

 Context examples 

She makes all our pastry, and does all our cooking.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This precious vessel was now placed on my knee, and I was cordially invited to eat the circlet of delicate pastry upon it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Skipping breakfast is a common phenomenon, and too many pastries, sweets and juices are consumed as part of this meal.

(Researchers reveal potential of bread that suppresses appetite, University of Granada)

These common structural domains, so-named for their resemblance to Danish pastries known as kringlers, play a role in binding membranes, proteins, and phospholipids as well as in regulating proteolysis.

(Kringle Domain, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

With a gelling agent commonly used in preparing pastries, researchers from the Inspired Nanomaterials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory have successfully fabricated an injectable bandage to stop bleeding and promote wound healing.

(Injectable Bandage Created, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Everybody acquainted with Bath may remember the difficulties of crossing Cheap Street at this point; it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the city, that a day never passes in which parties of ladies, however important their business, whether in quest of pastry, millinery, or even (as in the present case) of young men, are not detained on one side or other by carriages, horsemen, or carts.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And, what is more, said Hordle John, suddenly appearing out of the buttery with the huge board upon which the pastry was rolled, if either raise sword I shall flatten him like a Shrovetide pancake.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Didn't they steal sips of tea, stuff gingerbread ad libitum, get a hot biscuit apiece, and as a crowning trespass, didn't they each whisk a captivating little tart into their tiny pockets, there to stick and crumble treacherously, teaching them that both human nature and a pastry are frail?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was so young and childish, and so little qualified—how could I be otherwise? —to undertake the whole charge of my own existence, that often, in going to Murdstone and Grinby's, of a morning, I could not resist the stale pastry put out for sale at half-price at the pastrycooks' doors, and spent in that the money I should have kept for my dinner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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)