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pas⋅try

  [pey-stree]
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–noun, plural -tries.
1. a sweet baked food made of dough, esp. the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
2. any item of food of which such dough forms an essential part, as a pie, tart, or napoleon.
Origin:
1530–40; paste + -ry
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Pastry By Simmons Sisters
Fun, Fresh Fashion From Angela & Vanessa Simmons. Shop Pastry Today!
DrJays.com/Pastry
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Luscious Petits Fours & Pastries. Tasteful Food Gifts Since 1944.
www.Figis.com/Bakery Shop
pas·try   (pā'strē)   
n.   pl. pas·tries

  1. Dough or paste consisting primarily of flour, water, and shortening that is baked and often used as a crust for foods such as pies and tarts.

    1. Baked sweet foods made with pastry: Viennese pastry.

    2. One of these baked foods.


[Middle English pastree, from paste, paste, dough; see paste1.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

pastry 
1442, "food made with paste," not originally limited to sweets, from M.E. paste (see paste (n.)), probably influenced by O.Fr. pastaierie "pastry," from pastoier "pastry cook," from paste (see paste (n.)); also borrowed from M.L. pasteria "pastry," from L. pasta. Specific sense of "small confection made of pastry" is from 1906.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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