pastry cook
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- noun
- /ˈpeɪstri kʊk/
:
pastelero
- The whole wash house smells like a pastry cook's shop.
Examples
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"As the dough told the pastry cook: "'I am all you knead'
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I was only a pastry cook in the officers' mess.
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I was a very bad pastry cook.
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- The pastry cook, you will have to speak to him.
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She is an excellent pastry cook.
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"As the dough told the pastry cook: "'I am all you knead'
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As I come to the pastry cook's, I catch sight of the women behind the counter and can already imagine them laughing among themselves and making fun of the greedy youngster.
Academic text (1991) -
We now find an egg and a fish dealer, a grocer, a tea dealer, a confectioner, a pastry cook, a baker, a bacon curer, a watch and clock maker, and a plumber-cum-gas fitter.
Blog text (27) -
She is an incredible pastry cook known for her delicate cakes and tarts.
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After years of training, he finally became a skilled pastry cook at a renowned bakery.
Synonyms
How Skilled
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a chef who specializes in making pastries and desserts' is directly compositional from 'pastry' (baked goods) + 'cook' (person who prepares food). This noun+noun compound follows a common and transparent formation cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Pastry cook is a name for a chef who makes pastries and desserts. The phrase paints the simple image of a pastry as sweet baked food and a cook as a person who prepares food, so a pastry cook means 'a chef who makes pastries and desserts'.