pastry

pastry
n.

1) to bake, make pastry

2) light; puff (BE) pastry

3) (a) Danish pastry

* * *
['peɪstrɪ]
makepastry
puff (BE) pastry
(a) Danish pastry
to bake

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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