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NOUN:
pl. pas·tries

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.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English pastree, from paste, paste, dough ; see paste ¹

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