Danish pastry
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- noun
- /ˈdeɪnɪʃ ˈpeɪstri/
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pastel danés
- Every Sunday, she treats herself to a warm Danish pastry with cream cheese filling.
Examples
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Shuddering, Manfred rose to get the Danish pastries he had bought to offer to his colleagues.
Fiction book (1998) -
For dessert, we ordered a delicious Danish pastry filled with fresh strawberries.
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At the bakery, I couldn't resist buying a flaky Danish pastry that was drizzled with icing.
Synonyms
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A dough of flour and fat that you use as a base for pies
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A light sweet pastry made with yeast and often filled with fruit or cheese
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Morphology
The phrase is compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'Danish' (i.e., relating to Denmark or used to label a specific type of pastry) and 'pastry' (a baked sweet good) can infer it denotes a pastry of Danish style/origin. This attributive nationality + noun pattern is transparent and common cross-linguistically, so the meaning is immediately derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Danish pastry may come from the 1800s when bakers from Austria brought a layered sweet dough to Denmark and local bakers changed it by adding fruit and cheese. That's why the name joins Danish and pastry and now means the light, sweet 'pastry' people enjoy with jam or cheese.