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puff-pastry

puff-pastry is the archaic form of puff pastry.

Meaning of puff pastry

Noun

puff pastry (countable and uncountable, plural puff pastries)

  1. A light, flaky pastry that is made of alternating buttery and floury dough layers by repeatedly folding the rolled pastry into many layers.
    Synonyms:
    pate feuilletee

Forms of puff-pastry

pluralpuff-pastries

Questions about puff-pastry

What is puff-pastry the archaic form of?
Puff-pastry is the archaic form of puff pastry.

Words near puff-pastry in the dictionary

  1. puff-fishes
  2. puff-leg
  3. puff-legged
  4. puff-legs
  5. puff-pastries
  6. puff-pastry
  7. puff-puff
  8. puff-puffs
  9. puffa
  10. puffable
  11. puffadder

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