Definition of “pastry”

Add butter and, with a pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture is ragged and clumps together.

Bake for 25 minutes, or until pastry is risen and golden brown.

But in 1979, Arkan escaped and lay low for two years in Germany, posing as a pastry chef.

Dessert was an exquisite puff pastry rectangle with stalks of just sweet enough pink rhubarb served with ginger ice cream.

I sat outside the Hotel du Port in my Peugeot 504 saloon eating a pastry stuffed with a Toulouse sausage.

Put the pastry in horn moulds, making sure that it is spread evenly.

She stood up, scraping her chair back on the floor with such vehemence that the Japanese man next to her nearly dropped his pastry.

We're having pie and chips for tea tonight so I'll just eat the meat and the chips and leave off the pastry.

Which still doesn't explain why she wears a Danish pastry on each ear.