patisserie

See also: pâtisserie

English

Alternative forms

• pâtisserie

Etymology

Borrowed from French pâtisserie.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• cake shop
• cakery
• pastry shop

Related terms

• patissier

Translations

pastry shop

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: konditoria (fi)
• French: pâtisserie (fr) f
• German: Konditorei (de) f
• Greek: ζαχαροπλαστείο (el) n (zacharoplasteío)
• Indonesian: patiseri (id)
• Italian: pasticceria (it) f
• Macedonian: слаткарница f (slatkarnica)
• Polish: cukiernia (pl) f
• Portuguese: patisseria f, confeitaria (pt) f
• Russian: конди́терская (ru) f (kondíterskaja)
• Spanish: pastelería (es) f
• Turkish: pastane (tr)

Further reading

• Patisserie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• asperities

Spanish

Noun

patisserie f (plural patisseries)

1. patisserie