Pastry vs. Pasty

Pastrynoun

A baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.

Pastrynoun

(uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.

Pastrynoun

(obsolete) The place where pastry is made.

Pastrynoun

The act or art of making pastry.

Pastrynoun

The place where pastry is made.

Pastrynoun

Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.

Pastrynoun

a dough of flour and water and shortening

Pastrynoun

any of various baked foods made of dough or batter

Pastry

Pastry is a dough of flour, water and shortening (solid fats, including butter or lard) that may be savoury or sweetened. Sweetened pastries are often described as bakers' confectionery.

Pastyadjective

Like paste, sticky.

Pastyadjective

pale, lacking colour, having a pallor

Pastyadjective

white-skinned

Pastynoun

A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.

Pastynoun

A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.

Pastyadjective

Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.

Pastynoun

A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.

Pastynoun

small meat pie or turnover

Pastyadjective

resembling paste in color; pallid;

Pastyadjective

having the properties of glue

Pastynoun

a folded pastry case with a savoury filling, typically of seasoned meat and vegetables.

Pastyadjective

(of a person's face) unhealthily pale

Pastyadjective

of or like paste

Pasty

A pasty () is a British baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is made by placing an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, on one half of a flat shortcrust pastry circle, folding the pastry in half to wrap the filling in a semicircle and crimping the curved edge to form a seal before baking.