1 a dough of flour, fat, and water baked and used as a base and covering for pies etc.
2 a food, esp. cake, made wholly or partly of this. b a piece or item of this food.
Phrases and idioms:
pastry-cook a cook who specializes in pastry, esp. for public sale.
Etymology: PASTE after OF pastaierie
Useful english dictionary. 2012.