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# pastry

noun (pastry — the dough, uncountable; a pastry, pastries — the food)

«pastry» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A pastry is a small baked sweet food made with dough, like a croissant, a Danish or a tart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#m1)
2. Pastry is the dough made of flour, fat and water that is used for pies and tarts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#m2)

### In the lessons

a thing counted, made and sold by a baker, next to cakes; in cooking, pastry is rolled out for pies; phrases «puff pastry», «pastry chef», «pastry shop»

### Examples

- The baker made 140 pastries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x1)
- He sold 103 pastries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x2)
- How many pastries did he have left? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x3)
- How many more pastries than cakes did he sell? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x4)
- I had a pastry with my hot chocolate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x5)
- Roll the pastry out thin for the pie. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x6)
- The pastry chef makes cream puffs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x7)
- Puff pastry has lots of thin layers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x8)
- A sausage roll is wrapped in pastry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x9)
- The pastry shop smelled of butter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x10)
- But just as the Country Mouse was about to nibble a dainty bit of pastry, she heard a Cat mew loudly and scratch at the door. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/#x11)

### Note

A thing counted. «made» adds, «sold» takes away. Trap: cakes and pastries are counted apart. «Pastry» (dough) is uncountable, «pastries» (things to eat) are counted. Do not mix up with «pasta».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pastry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pastry/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pastry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pastry.html) on Mova free.