Donut vs Pastry - What's the difference?
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(North America) A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream.
*1900 , (George Wilbur Peck), Peck’s bad boy and his pa, Stanton and Van Vliet, p. 107:
*:…Pa said he guessed he hadn’t got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut.
(North America) Anything in the shape of a torus
(North America, automobile) a peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid.
(North America) A spare tire, smaller and less durable than a full-sized tire, only intended for temporary use.
A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
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A baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
(label) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
(label) The place where pastry is made.
* 1591 , , IV. iv. 2:
As nouns the difference between donut and pastry
is that donut is doughnut while pastry is a baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.donut
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Alternative forms
* doughnutNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
Rare until 1950s, increasingly popular since then,“donut, doughnut]”, Google Ngram viewerpossibly influenced by spread of (w, Dunkin' Donuts) (founded 1950).“[http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/09/google_ngram_viewer_a_language_time_machine.html The Language Time Machine: Google’s Ngram Viewer gave us a new way to explore history, but has it led to any real discoveries?”, by Elizabeth Weingarten, Slate, Sept. 9, 2013
References
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(wikipedia pastry)Noun
(pastries)- They call for dates and quinces in the pastry .
