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PASTRY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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"):

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)

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A dough of flour and water and shortening

Synonyms:

pastry; pastry dough

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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)

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 Context examples: 

On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)