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pâte feuilletée

pâte feuilletée

9.9
A rich layered pastry dough used to make croissants and puff pastries
  • noun
  • /pɑːt fəjɛˈteɪ/
  • Specialized
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  • The chef rolled out the pâte feuilletée carefully to achieve perfect layers in her pastry.

Examples

  • Classic French desserts like mille-feuille start with high-quality pâte feuilletée.

  • I bought some pâte feuilletée from the bakery.

  • You can buy ready-made pâte feuilletée from gourmet food stores.

  • The recipe calls for pâte feuilletée and cream.

  • For the cake, we decided to use pâte feuilletée to create a light and flaky texture.

  • The chef prepared pâte feuilletée to make delicious croissants for breakfast.

  • She learned how to make pâte feuilletée for her pastry class, impressing everyone with its flaky layers.

Synonyms

puff paste
vspâte feuilletée
  • Specialized
4.9

A dough of flour, butter, and water that makes light, flaky layers when baked

is richer and used for croissants and mille-feuille rather than only puff pastry

How Flaky

pâte feuilletée
  • Specialized
9.9
phyllo
  • US
5 8.3

Surface Forms

pâte feuilletée singular
pâtes feuilletées plural

Morphology

pâte + feuilletée

The term literally combines pâte ('dough') and feuilletée ('layered' or 'leafed/flaky'), so the meaning 'layered, flaky pastry dough' is directly and compositionally derivable from its parts. This compositional pattern (dough + layered) is cross-linguistically transparent, so a learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Pâte feuilletée comes from the French words pâte and feuilletée, which comes from the word for 'leaf'. Bakers fold butter into the dough again and again to make many thin layers like stacked leaves, and when baked these layers puff and separate, so the name means 'a light, flaky pastry dough'.