Patisserie

noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    a shop that sells pastries and cakes UK, countable, uncountable

    "“Whoa. Pastry Pete's Patisserie. Pastry Pete is so brilliant. Did you know he won a Tasty Num Nums Award last year for combining crullers and Bundt cakes? They're called "crunts"!” “Oh, you got a crush on him. Speckle better watch out.” “I do not! Shut up! I'm telling you, you gotta try those sweet, crusty crunts.” “Ew!” “Come on, let's go!”"

  2. 2
    a bakery specializing in French pastry wordnet
  3. 3
    pastry countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "He had a little wife, he ſaid, whom he loved, who did the patiſſerie; and added, he felt no diſhonour in defending her and himſelf from want in this way—unleſs Providence had offer’d him a better."

Example

More examples

"In front of my house there is a charming patisserie."

Etymology

Borrowed from French pâtisserie.

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