patisserie

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Borrowed from French pâtisserie.

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patisserie (countable and uncountable, plural patisseries)

  1. (UK) a shop that sells pastries and cakes
  2. (obsolete) pastry
    • 1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], “Le Patisser. Versailles.”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume II, London: T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, , →OCLC, pages 51–52:
      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.

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patisserie f (plural patisseries)

  1. patisserie